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Containing specially prepared articles relative to the County, written by distinguished residents 

matters concerning the County's history; organization of Towns, Villages and Cities; 

population as shown by the various census enumerations, with other statistics and 

general facts of interest and value. Karnes and addresses of present ofBcials 

In County, Towns, Cities and Villages, together with a complete list of 

Lawyers practicing in the several localities. 

Also, containing the portraits and biographies of distinguished men connected with the County' 

early history, as well as of prominent ofadals of the present time. 



"White Plains, N. Y. ; 
HENRY t/sMITH, PUBLISHER. 

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Copyrig-ht^b.)'' 

HENRY T.^'SMITH. 

1898. 



All rights reserved. 

'WROPies DECEIVED. 







PREFACE. 



The compilation and presentation of this work is largely due 
to the urgent solicitation and support of prominent officials and 
residents of Westchester County. Recognizing the necessity of 
securing, while data is yet available, as complete a record as 
possible of officials connected with the County's history, and 
estimating that the preservation of such record, in convenient 
book form, will be of practical value, in the future as well as 
at the present time, the author and compiler, at great expense, 
has completed the work. He trusts that as a book of reference 
it will be found invaluable. 

An effort has been made to secure all names, with residence, 
of persons entitled to a place in the County's civil list. These 
have been arranged in such a manner as to enable those who 
consult the book to trace the official history of every person at 
any time connected with the County government or with its 
local branches. As far as possible the development of each 
department has been shown. 

Special articles, relative to matters deemed of public import 
anee, have been recorded in the hope that they may prove inter 
esting and instructive. 

In the preparation of biographies, it has been the desire to 
indulge in no undeserved praise, or fulsome laudation. Every 
man has been accorded the'credit he honestly deserves, and it 
has been the author's sincere purpose to bring to public recog- 
nition the characteristics and traits of each official who has 
been deemed worthy of biographical consideration. 

The aim of the author has been to make the work authentic 
in facts and dates. A great amount of tedious and exacting 
labor has been found necessary to render it so, partly owing 
to the fact that the compilation of such a work has never before 
been attempted in this county. In the absence of authenti 
cated records, in many cases dependence had to be placed upon 
the memory of old residents. It is therefore possible, that 
despite most conscientious and indefatigable labor, an occa- 
sional error may be found. 

The author takes this occasion to publicly tender his thanks 
to all who have rendered assistance to him, assuring them that 
but for such invaluable aid his labor might have been more 
than disproportionably increased. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



THE COUNTY OF WiiBTOHESTEE. 



Westchester County has the proud distinction of being one of 
the twelve original counties of the State of New York, under 
the English rule. It was erected by the act of 1683. The 
twelve counties were, Albany, Cornwall, Dukes, Dutchess, 
Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster 
and Westchester. Two of these, Cornwall and Dukes counties, 
were subsequently attached to other States. 

Prior to the formation of counties, and under the Dutch 
rule, the only divisions were the cities and towns. In 
1665, a district, or Sheriffalty, called Yorkshire, was erected. It 
comprised Long Island, Staten Island and a part of what is 
now Westchester County. For judicial purposes it was divided 
into three ridings. What is now Westchester County was 
united with what is now Kings County, Staten Island and 
Newtown, to form the West Riding. 

The act of 1683, referred to, reads: "An Act to divide the 
Province of New York and dependencies into Shires and Coun- 
tys, etc." "Having taken into consideration the necessity of 
dividing the Province into respective Countys, for the better 
governing and settling courts in the same, be it enacted by the 
Governor, Council and the Representatives, and by the author- 
ity of the same, that the said Province be divided into twelve 
Countys as followeth: The County of Westchester, to con- 
teyne West and Eastchester, Bronx-land Fordham, Anne 
Hook's Neck, Richbells, Miniford's Islands, and all the land on 
the maine to the eastward of Manhattan's Island as farre as 
the government extends, and the Yonker's land, and northward 
along Hudson's River as farre as the Highland." "This bill 
having been three times read before the Governor and Council, 
is assented to, the first of November, 1683." 

It is presumed that the county was named in honor of 
Chester, England, the title having been bestowed after the 
English occupancy. As it was named subsequent to the town 
of Westchester, which was created in 1667. it is therefore al- 
leged that the town gave to the county its title. Governor 
Nicoll, who had changed the name of the province from New 
Netherland to New York, and named nearly all the other settle- 
ments after the various titles which King James, then Duke 
of York, possessed, such as York, Albany, etc., and styled what 
is now Westchester County and Long Island as Yorkshire, gave 
the first patent to the town which he directed should be called 
Westchester, describing the town within the same boundaries 
it had when it was, recentlv, annexed to New York citv. 



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William Smitli, the historian, of New York, in 175G, thus de- 
scribed the county "Westchester County is large, and in- 
cludes all the land beyond the Island of Manhattans along the 
{Sound to the Connecticut line, which is its eastern boundary. 
It extends northward to the middle of the Highlands, and west- 
ward to Hudson's River. A great part of this county is con- 
tained in the manors of Philipsburg, Pelham, Fordham, and 
Courtlandt, the last of which has the privilege of sending a rep- 
resentative to the General Assembly. The county is tolerably 
settled. The lands are in general rough but fertile, and there- 
fore the farmers run principally on grazing. It has several 
towns, Eastchester, Westchester, New Rochelle, Rye, Bed- 
ford and North Castle. The inhabitants, are either English, or 
Dutch Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Quakers, and French 
Protestants. The former are the most numerous. The two 
Episcopal missionaries are settled at Rye and Eastchester, and 
receive each £60 annually taxed upon the county. The town 
of Westchester is an incorporated borough, enjoying a Mayor's 
court and the right of being represented by a Member in As- 
sembly." 

Beside the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, forming the 
western and eastern boundaries, there are in the county sev- 
eral small streams, Peekskill Creek and Croton River, which 
rise in Dutchess and Putnam counties, run south westward 
across the northwestern part of the county to the Hudson ; the 
Saw Mill River runs from Mount Pleasant to the Hudson 
River at Yonkers; the Bronx River, the Hutchinson River and 
the Mamaroneck River run south into the Long Island Sound; 
the Byram River runs from Westchester, principally in Con- 
necticut, and forms two miles of the State boundary from its 
mouth in Long Island Sound, which receives some other small 
streams from the southeast angle of W^estchester County, direct 
across the southwest angle of Connecticut. 

The county was divided by the act of March 7, 1788, into 
twenty towns, viz: Bedford, Cortlandt, Eastchester, Green- 
burgh, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Mount Pleasant, New Rochelle, 
North Castle, North Salem, Pelham, Poundridge, Rye, Salem, 
Scarsdale, Stephentown, W^estchester, White Plains, Yonkers 
and Yorktown. The county having an area of 500 square miles. 

The name of the town of Salem, was changed to South Salem, 
April 6, 1806, and to Lewisboro, February 13, 1840, and a part of 
North Salem was annexed April 26, 1844. Ossining was formed 
from Mount Pleasant, May 2, 1845. New Castle was formed from 
North Castle, March 18, 1791, and a part of Somers annexed May 
12, 1846. The name of Stephentown was changed to Somers, 



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April 6, 1808. West Farms was formed from Westchester, May 
13, 1846. Morrisania was formed from West Farms, December 
7, 1855. Kingsbridge was formed from Yonkers, December IG, 
1872. 

At present there are twenty-two towns in the county, viz: 
Bedford, Cortlandt, Eastchester, Greenburgh, Harrison, Lewis- 
boro, Mamaroneck, Mount Pleasant, New Castle, New Rochelle, 
North Castle, North Salem, Ossining, Pelham, Foundridge, 
Rye, Scarsdale, Somers, White Plains, Yorktown, the city and 
town of Mount Vernon, and the city and town of Yonkers. 

The village and town of Yonkers were chartered as a city in 
1872. The former village of Mount Vernon, in the town of 
Eastchester, was chartered as a city in 1892; the remaining 
portion of the town was continued under the name of the town 
of Eastchester. 

Reference is made elsewhere to the early courts of the county, 
established at the county's organization in the borough of 
Westchester, and remained there until 1759. Courts continued 
to be held alternately at the court house in White Plains, and 
in the court house in Bedford, until 1870, when, by chapter 550 
of the laws of 1870, it was enacted that the courts in and for 
Westchester County should be hereafter held at the court 
house in White Plains. 

By an act passed by the Legislature, April 15, 1857, the coun- 
ties of New York, Westchester, Kings and Richmond were 
united in one Police District, to be known as the Metropolitan 
Police District. By an act passed in 1866 the Police Board and 
four Sanitary Commissioners were made to compose a Board 
of Health for the district, and the said Board of Health was 
given power to grant licenses for the sale of intoxicating 
liquors within the district, except in the County of Westchester. 
The laws relating to the Metropolitan Sanitary District and 
Board of Health so far as they applied to Westchester County, 
were repealed by the laws of 1871, chapter 433. 

The limits of the county as first established and as organized 
by the general acts of 1788 and 1801 remained the same up to 
January 1, 1874, when by an act of the Legislature, passed May 
23, 1873, the towns of Morrisania, West Farms and Kingsbridge 
were annexed to the city and county of New York. 

By an act of the Legislature, passed June 6, 1895, more ter- 
ritory belonging to Westchester County was annexed to the city 
and county of New York; territory lying within the incorporated 
villages of Wakefield, Eastchester and Williamsbridge, the 
town of Westchester and portions of the towns of Eastchester 
and Pelham. As the act reads: ^'All that territory comprised 



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within tlie limits of tlie towns of Westchester, Eastchester and 
i'elham which has not been annexed to the city and county of 
New York, at the time of the passage of this act, which lies 
southerly of a straight line drawn from the point where the 
northerly line of the city of New York meets the centre line 
of the Bronx River, to the middle of the channel between Hunt- 
er's and Glen Islands, in Long Island Sound, and all that terri- 
tory lying within the incorporated limits of the village of Wake- 
field, which lies northerly of said line, with the inhabitants 
and estates therein, is hereby set off from the county of West- 
chester and annexed to, merged into and made part of the city 
and county of New York, and of the twenty-fourth ward of 
said city." 

The population of the county, as shown by the several census 
enumerations, taken in 1698 and subsequently, was as follows: 
In 1698, 1,063; in 1703, 1,946; in 1712, 2,815; in 1723, 4,409; in 
1731, 6,033; in 1737, 6,745; in 1746, 9,235; in 1749, 10,703; in 
1756, 13,257; in 1771, 21,745; in 1790, 24,003; in 1800, 27,347; in 
1810, 30,272; in 1814, 26,367; in 1820, 32,638; in 1825, 33,131; in 
1830, 36,456; in 1835, 38,789; in 1840, 48,686; in 1845, 47,394; in 
1850, 58,263; in 1855, 80,678; in 1860, 99,497; in 1865, 101,167; 
in 1870, 131,348; in 1875, 103,564; in 1880, 108,988; in 1890, 
146,772; in 1892, 147,830. 



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General Election, November 8, 1898. 



The State Constitution adopted in 1894 re-arranges the terms 
of office and times of elections of the Governor, Lieutenant- 
Governor, State Officers, Senators and municipal officers so 
that the elections for State Officers will occur on the even-num- 
bered years and the elections for municipal officers on the odd- 
numbered years. 

The term of office of the Governor and the Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor has been changed from three to two years, commencing 
January 1, 1897; it is also provided that an election for Secre- 
tary of State, State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Attorney- 
General and State Engineer shall be held in the year one thou- 
sand, eight hundred and ninety-eight, and every two years 
thereafter their successors shall be chosen for the term of two 
years. For the first time in the history of the State, all the 
above named State Officers will be chosen at one election, to be 
held on November 8, 1898. 

A Governor, in place of Frank S. Black. 

A Lieutenant-Governor, in place of Timothy L. Woodruff. 

A Secretary of State, in place of John Palmer. 

A Comptroller, in place of James A. Roberts. 

A State Treasurer, in place of Addison B. Colvin. 

An Attorney-General, in place of Theodore E. Hancock. 

A State Engineer and Surveyor, in place of Campbell W. 
Adams. 

At the same election, the electors of this county will also 
vote for: 

A Justice of the Supreme Court, for the Second Judicial 
District, in place of Augustus Van Wyck, 

A Justice of the Supreme Court, for the Second Judicial Dis- 
trict, in place of Jesse Johnson, appointed to fill vacancy, 
caused by death of Justice Osbom. 

A Congressman, in place of William L. Ward. 

A State Senator, in place of James Irving Bums. 

A Member of Assembly, First District, in place of Jared 
Sandford. 

A Member of Assembly, Second District, in place of William 
J. Graney. 

A Member of Assembly, Third District, in place of John 
Gibney. 

A County Clerk, in place of Leverett F. Crumb. 

A Register, in place of Thomas R. Hodge. 

A District Attorney, in place of George C. Andrews. 

A Superintendent of the Poor, in place of Henry Esser. 



10 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

A Coroiier, in place of Charles S. Apgar. 

At the election held in 1895, Leverett F, Cinimb, (R.) received 
for the office of County Clerk, 13,416 votes, to 12,307 votes cast 
for Jared Sandford, (D.). Thomas R. Hodge, (R.), received for 
Register, 13,450 votes, to 12,174 votes cast for William J. 
Graney, (D.). For District Attorney, George C. Andrews, (R.), 
received, 13,900 votes, to 11,971 votes cast for John F. Brennan, 
(D.). For Superintendent of the Poor, Henry Esser, (R.), re- 
ceived 13,485 votes, to 12,242 votes cast for Miles Adams, (D.). 
For Coroner, Charles S, Apgar, (R.), received 13,355 votes, to 
11,772 votes cast for Edward F. Sheehan, M. D., (D.). 

For State Senator, James Irving Burns, (R.), received in 
Westchester County 13,929 votes, in the Annexed District 913 
votes — total 14,842; Charles P. McClelland, (D,)^ received in 
Westchester County 11,868 votes, in the Annexed Distnct 1,384 
votes— total 13,252. 

The vote for Congressman in this (the 16th) district, in 1896, 
was given as follows: William L. Ward, (R.), received in 
Westchester County 18,176 votes, in the New York city 34th and 
35th Assembly Districts, and the Annexed District, 12,533 votes 
— total 30,709; Eugene B. Travis, (D.), received in Westchester 
County 12,088 votes, in the New York city 34th and 35th As- 
sembly Districts, and the Annexed District, 11,368 votes — total 
23,456; James V. Lawrence, (Ind. D.), received in Westchester 
County 1,119 votes, in the New York city 34th and 35th Assembly 
Districts, and the Annexed District, 578 votes — total 1,697; 
Ben. L. Fairchild, (Ind. R.), received in Westchester County 
382 votes, in the New York city 34th and 35th Assembly Dis- 
tricts, and the Annexed District, 388 votes — total 770. 

(Note. — Ben L. Fairchild was not an independent candidate 
for Congress. His name was printed on the official ballot as 
such as a result of a dispute as to who was the regular Republi- 
can nominee. The statute required his name to be printed in 
a separate column. By an error it was printed in the inde- 
pendent column. Mr, Fairchild, on discovering this, immedi- 
ately disclaimed the independent candidacy and issued a cir- 
cular urging his friends to stand by the straight Republican 
ticket.) 

In 1897, November 2, in the First Assembly District, for Mem- 
ber of Assembly, Alfred E. Smith, (R.), received in that portion 
of the county being a part of the district, 4,798 votes, and in the 
portion composed of the annexed territory, 138 votes; Jared 
Sandford, (D.), received in the county 5,392 votes, and in the 
annexed territory 332 votes. In the Second Assembly District, 



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for Member of Assembly, George H. Mairs, (R.), received in the 
county 4,059 votes, and in the annexed territory 930 votes; 
William J. Graney, (D.), received in the county 3,983 votes, and 
in the annexed territory 1,951 votes. In the Third Assembly 
District, John Gibney, (D.), received 4,006 votes; James K. Ap- 
gar, (R.), received 3,845 votes. 

For Sherifif, William V. Molloy, (R.), received 12,877 votes; 
John J. Brodericlc, (D.), received 12,169 votes; Louis W. Elliott, 
(Pro.), received 1,428 votes. For Coroner, Charles E. Birch. 
(R.), received 13,084 votes; Charles Hilbert, (D.), received 12,331 
votes; Bartholomew R. Washburn, (Pro.), received 667 votes. 

For Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, William J. Wal- 
lace, (R.), received 13,371 votes; Alton B. Parker, (D.), received 
12,997 votes. For Justice of the Supreme Court, Joseph A. 
Burr, (R.), received 13,117 votes; Willard Bartlett, (D.), received 
12,691 votes. On January 26, 1898, the Board of Supervisors, 
by order of the court, recanvassed the votes cast in the 5th 
district of the town of Cortlandt, for the oflQce of Supreme Court 
Justice, and allowed to Coleridge A. Hart five (5) votes, the 
whole number of votes given and cast, ''For Justice of Supreme 
Court to fill vacancy in place of Calvin E. Pratt, deceased." 



NOTES KELATIVE TO GENERAL ELECTION. 

There are one hundred and one election districts in the 
county of Westchester. 

Election Day occurs on November 8, 1898; polls open from 
6 a. m. to 5 p. m. 

Day of Registration — In all cities and villages having a popu- 
lation of 5,000 or more: Friday, October 7, Saturday, October 
8, Friday, October 14, and Saturday October 15. In all election 
districts other than in cities and villages having 5,000 inhabit- 
ants, Saturday, October 8, and Saturday, October 15. 

Nominations to be filed with the County Clerk, or City Clerk : 
Regular party, from October 5 to 15; Independent, from Octo- 
ber 20 to October 30. Nominations to be filed with Town or 
Village Clerk; Regular Party, from October 20 to October 25; 
Independent, from October 20 to October 30. 

Declination of Nominations — Regular Party, to be filed with 
a Town or Village Clerk not later than October 30 ; Independent 
not later than November 2. Regular Party, with County Clerk 
or City Clerk, not later than October 20; Independent not later 
than October 22. Regular Party, with Secretary' of State, not 
later than October 15; Independent, not later than October 20. 



12 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

Within three days after filing of any certificate of nomina- 
tion, objection can be made. 

A list of all candidates shall be published in the newspapers, 
not later than November 3. 

November 18, last day for candidates to file statement of 
expenses. 

All County Boards of Canvassers meet on Tuesday, Novem- 
ber 15, for canvass of votes. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Kepresentatives in the Colonial Assemblies. 

In the Colonial days elections for the selection of town offi- 
cers were held on the first Tuesday in April in each of the 
towns, and as often as writs of election directed to the sheriff 
were issued for the purpose of choosing members of the As- 
sembly. The representative of the county was first elected in 
the southern portion of the county, later, under act of Novem- 
ber 25, 1751, elections were held in the vicinity of the Presby- 
terian meeting house, at White Plains. The electors made 
known their choice by a viva voce vote. Voting by ballot was 
provided first by the Constitution of 1777. 

This county was represented in the General, or Colonial, As- 
semblies by the following named residents, who were, as the 
law at that time required, freeholders; they received as their 
compensation the sum of six shillings, or seventy-five cents per 
day, the same being paid direct by their constituents: 

John Pell, from 1691 to 1693. 

John Pell and Joseph Theale, 1693 to 1694. 

John Pell and Humphrey Underbill, 1694 to 1695. 

Joseph Purdy and Joseph Theale, 1695 to 1698. 

John Drake and Joseph Purdy, 1698 to 1699. 

John Drake and John Hunt, 1699 to 1701 

Henry Fowler and William Willett, 1701 to 1702. 

William Willett, Joseph Purdy and Josiah Hunt, 1702 to 1705. 

William Willett, Edmund Ward and Josiah Hunt, 1705 to 
1709 

Joseph Purdy, John Drake and Josiah Hunt, 1709 to 1710. 

William Willet, Edmund Ward and Josiah Hunt, 1710 to 
1711. 

William Willet, Edmund Ward (died in office), John Holte 
and Lewis Morris, 1711 to 1713. 

William Willet, Joseph Drake and Lewis Morris, 1713 to 1715. 

Josiah Hunt, Jonathan Odell and Lewis Morris, 1715 to 1716. 

William Willet, Joseph Budd, (died in office in 1722), Lewis 
Morris and Adolph Philipse, 1716 to 1726. 

William Willet and Frederick Philipse. 1726 to 1739. 

Lewis Morris, 1726 to 1738. 

Lewis Morris, Jr., 1738 to 1739. 

Frederick Philipse, Daniel Purdy and Lewis Morris, Jr., 1739 
to 1743. 

Philip Verplanck, 1734 to 1768. 

Frederick Philipse and John Thomas, 1743 to 1750. 

Lewis Morris, Jr., 1743 to 1745, 1747 to 1750. 

Lewis Morris, 1745 to 1747. 



14 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Col. Frederick Philipse (died in office), 1750 to 1751. 
John Thomas and Peter Delancey, 1750 to 1775. 
Frederick Philipse, 1751 to 1775. 
Pierre Van Gortlandt, 1768 to 1775. 
Isaac Wilkins, 1772 to 1775. 

The last session of the last General Assembly, the thirty- 
first, was held on April 3, 1775. 

Adolph Philipse was speaker in 1725, and from 1739 to 1745. 
Lewis Morris, Jr., was speaker in 1737. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 15 



Provincial Congress Deputies. 



The state Colonial Assembly was succeeded by the Pro- 
vincial Congress, in 1775. 

The first sessions of this Congress were held in the city of 
New York, from May 22, to July 8, from July 26, to September 
2; from October 4, to November 4, 1775. The Deputies repre- 
senting this county were, Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, 
James Van Cortlandt, David Dayton, Philip Van Cortlandt, 
Stephen Ward, Joseph Drake, John Thomas, Jr., William 
Paulding, John Holmes and Robert Graham. 

The Second Provincial Congress met in New York on Decem- 
ber 0, 1775 and continued its sessions until May 13, 1776. Lewis 
Graham, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, John Thomas, 
Jr., Joseph Drake, William Paulding, Robert Graham, Eben- 
ezer Lockwood and Gilbert Drake, served as Deputies from 
this county. 

The Third Provincial Congress, convened in New York May 
18, 1776, and continued until June 30, of same year. This 
county was represented by Lewis Morris, Peter Fleming, 
Samuel Haviland, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jonathan G. Tomp- 
kins, Benjamin Smith, Gouverneur Morris, Gilbert Drake, 
Zebediah Mills, Ebenezer Lockwood, Jonathan Piatt and Lewis 
Graham. 

The Fourth Provincial Congress, which assembled at the 
court house, in the town of White Plains, in this county, con- 
tinued in session from July 9, to July 27, 1776; on July 29, a 
session was held at Harlem which continued until August 29, 
and after holding sessions at Fishkill and Kingston, the Con- 
gress finally dissolved, at the latter place, on May 13, 1777. 
Jonathan G. Tompkins, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Ebenezer Lock- 
wood, William Paulding, Lewis Graham, Gouverneur Morris, 
Jonathan Piatt, Lewis Morris, Samuel Haviland, Benjamin 
Smith, Zebediah Mills, Gilbert Drake, attended as this county's 
representatives. 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, of this county, acted as president of 
the Council of Safety, which was appointed on May 3, 1777, 
after the formation of the State Constitution, as a temporary 
form of government, to serve until a Governor could be elected 
and the Legislature meet. The council was composed of fifteen 
members, Gouverneur Morris and Jonathan G. Tompkins, of 
this county, were among the number. 



16 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



In the United States Senate. 



In the long list of United States Senators, representing this 
State, the name of only one person from this county is found, 
that of Gouvemeur Morris, of Westchester, who was elected on 
April 3, 1800, and served until February 1, 1803. 



The County's Eepresentatives in Congress. 

Representatives in Congress, who are elected by districts, 
must have been seven years citizens of the United States, and 
have reached the age of twenty-five years. Congress appor- 
tions the representation among the several States. This ap- 
portionment is made after each census, which the Constitution 
of the United States directs shall be taken every ten years, in 
years ending with a cipher. The Legislatures, after each of 
said apportionments, divide their States into Congressional 
Districts. 

Under acts of 1789 and 1792, Westchester county united with 
other counties in the election of representatives to the 1st, 2d, 
3d and 4th Congresses. 

By the act of March 23, 1797, districts were first formed ani 
numbered. Westchester county, the Seventh Ward of New 
York city and the towns of Haverstraw, Clarkstown, Hemp- 
stead and Orangetown, then of Orange county, later forming 
what is now Rockland county, were made to compose the Third 
Congressional District. 

The act of March 30, 1802, made Westchester and Rockland 
counties the Fourth Congressional District. This arrangement 
r^ontinued until the year 1808, when the act of March 8, of that 
year, put \Vestchester and Orange counties together to form 
the Third Congressional District. 

The act of June 10, 1812, again associated the counties of 
Westchester and Rockland in the Third District. 

Putnam and Westchester counties, were by an act of April 
17, 1822, made the Fourth Congressional District. The act of 
June 29, 1832, continued this assignment. 

By an act of September 6, 1842, Westchester and Rockland 
counties were made the Seventh Congressional District. 

The act of July 19, 1851, and the act of April 23, 1862, com- 
bined Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties in one dis- 
trict, the first act making it the ninth district and the second 
act designating it the 10th district. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 17 

Westchester county alone, composed the 12th Congressional 
District, under the act of June 18,1873. 

By the act of May 16, 1883, the connty of Westchester and 
that part of Westchester county recently annexed to New York 
city, and composing the 24th Assembly District, was made to 
form the 14th Congressional District. 

The act of April 13, 1892, constituted the county of West- 
chester and the 37th to 65th election districts of the 34th As- 
sembly District; 18th to 59th election districts of the 35th As- 
sembly District; 1st to 11th election districts, annex of the 
county of New York, the 16th Congressional District. 

The iollowing are the names of the persons representing the 
county and the years in which they served as such represen- 
tatives : 

Philip Van Cortlandt, from 1789 to 1809, 1811 to 1813. 

Jonathan Fisk, 1809 to 1811. 

Peter Denoyelles, 1813-15. 

Jonathan Ward, 1815-17. 

Caleb Tompkins, 1817-21. 

Jeremiah H. Pierson, 1821-23. 

Joel Frost, 1823-25. 

Aaron Ward, 1825-26-27-28-29-32-33-34-35-36-37-42-43. 

Henry B. Cowles, 1829-31. 

Gouvemeur Kemble, 1837-41. 

Joseph H. Anderson, 1843-47, 

William Nelson, 1847-51. 

Abram P. Stevens, 1851-53. 

Jared V. Peck, 1853-55. 

Bayard Clark, 1855-57. 

John B. Haskin, 1857-61. 

Edward Haight, 1861-63. 

William Radford, 1863 to 1867. 

William H. Robertson, 1867-69. 

Clarkson N. Potter, 1869 to 1875, 1877-79. 

N. Holmes Odell, 1875-77. 

Alexander Smith was elected to the 56th Congress, 1879, 
but died at his home in Yonkers on the evening of election, a 
few minutes after his success had been announced to him. 

Waldo Hutchins, 1880-84. 

William G. Stahlnecker, 1885-92. 

William Ryan, 1893-4. 

Ben L. Fairchild, 1895-6. 

William L. Ward, 1897-8. 



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Presidential Electors- 



In this State, Presidential Electors were originally appointed 
by the Legislature, under act passed April 12, 1792. By this 
act the Southern District, of which Westchester county was a 
part, was allowed four and the other districts three electors 
each. The Electoral College meets every four years; prior to 
1812 it met at several different places; in the latter year an act 
was passed fixing Albany as the permanent place of meeting. 
In 1825 the people of the State, by vote, decided to choose elec- 
tors by districts; but they were chosen by districts at only one 
election. In 1829 the Legislature adopted the general ticket 
system now in vogue. On the general ticket one per- 
son is elected from each Congressional District, and two 
to represent the State at large. The Federal Constitution pro- 
vides that the President of the United States shall be chosen 
by electors appointed in such a manner as the Legislature of 
the respective States shall direct, the number to be equal to 
their number of Senators and Representatives in Congress. 
Attempts have been made to change the mode of selecting a 
President and Vice-President, to have them chosen by the di- 
rect vote of the people; though such attempts have failed, the 
agitation has had the effect of exhibiting a strong sentiment 
in favor of tlie proposition. 

Electors must be chosen within thirty-four days before the 
first AVednesday of December, in every fourth year. In this 
State, electors are chosen at the general election held on the 
Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The Electoral 
College must meet at the State Capitol, in Albany, on the first 
Wednesday of December; vote for President and Vice-Presi- 
dent, make a. certified list thereof and forward same under seal, 
by special messenger, to the President of the United States 
Senate, who opens and announces the result, in the presence of 
both houses of Congress. The Congressional District, of which 
Westchester county was and is a part, or a whole, has been rep- 
resented in the Electoral College, from time to time, by the 
following named: 

Stephen Ward, Eastchester, in 1792 

Lewis Morris, 3d, Westchester 1796 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., Cortlandt 1800 

John Herring, Rockland County 1804 

Ebenezer White, Yorktown 1808 

Philip Van Cortlandt, Cortlandt 1812 

Peter S. Van Orden, Rockland County 1816 



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Jacob Odell, Tarrytown 1820, 1828 

James Drake, Peekskill 1824 

Abraham Miller, Westchester 1832 

Jeremiah Anderson, Harrison 1836 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, Cortlandt 1840 

Daniel Johnson, Rockland County 1844 

George Benson, Rockland County 1848 

Edward Suffern, Rockland County 1852 

Jared V, Peck, Rye 1856 

William H. Robertson, Bedford 1860 

Alexander Davidson, Rockland County 1864 

George B. Pentz, Yonkers 1868 

David D. Smith, Rockland County 1872 

Jordan L. Mott, Morrisania 1876 

John B. Trevor, Yonkers 1880 

John Hunter, Westchester 1884 

J. Thomas Stearns, Morrisania 1888 

Martin J. Keogh, New Rochelle 1892 

William L. Ward, Port Chester 1896 



PEESIDENTIAL VOTE IN THE COUNTY. 

The vote given for the Electoral ticket of each of the two 
principal political parties, commencing with the year 1828, has 
been as follows in Westchester county: 
Year. Candidates for President. 
1828 Andrew Jackson, 

John Quincy Adams, 
1832 Andrew Jackson, 

Henry Clay, 
1836 Martin Van Buren, 

William H. Harrison 
1840 Martin Van Buren, 

William H. Harrison, 
1844 James K.Polk, 

Henry Clay, 
1848 Lewis Cass, 

Za chary Taylor, 

Martin Van Buren, 
1852 Franklin Pierce, 

Winfield Scott, 
1856 James Buchanan, 

Millard Fillmore, 

John C. Fremont, 



Dlitical Party. 


Votes Cast. 


Democrat, 


3,788 


Whig, 


3,153 


Democrat, 


3,133 


Whig, 


2,293 


Democrat, 


3,009 


Whig, 


1,749 


Democrat, 


4,354 


Whig, 


4,083 


Democrat, 


4,412 


Whig, 


4,258 


Democrat, 


2,146 


Whig, 


4,312 


Free Soil, 


1,312 


Democrat, 


5,283 


Whig, 


4,033 


Democrat, 


4,600 


Whig, 


4,450 


Republican, 


3,641 



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1860 Stephen A. Douglas, 

John Bell, and John C. 

Breckenridge, 

Abraham Lincoln, 
1864 George B. McClellaji, 

Abraham Lincoln, 
1868 Horatio Seymour, 

Ulysses S. Grant, 
1872 Horace Greeley, 

Ulysses S. Grant, 
1876 Samuel Tilden, 

Rutherford B. Hayes, 
1880 Winfield S. Hancock, 

James A. Garfield, 
1884 Grover Cleveland, 

James G. Blaine, 
1888 Grover Cleveland 

Benjamin Harrison, 
1892 Grover Cleveland, 

Benjamin Harrison, 
1896 William McKinley, 

William J, Bryan, 

John M. Palmer, 



Union, 


8,100 


Republican, 


6,771 


Democrat, 


9,353 


Republican, 


7,593 


Democrat, 


11,667 


Republican, 


9,641 


Democrat, 


11,112 


Republican, 


10,223 


Democrat, 


12,050 


Republican, 


9,547 


Democrat, 


11,858 


Republican, 


11,367 


Democrat, 


12,524 


Republican, 


11,286 


Democrat, 


14,948 


Republican, 


13,779 


Democrat, 


16,091 


Republican, 


13,456 


Republican, 


19,357 


Democrat, 


11,770 


Gold Democrat, 


650 



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HOW WESTCHESTER IS NEW YORK'S BENEFACTOR. 



The first step toward securing a public water supply for New 
York city was taken on July 11, 1658, when a public well was 
dug in front of the old fort, which was situated just south of 
the present Bowling Green in that city. In 1677 other wells 
were located in different sections in the lower part of what is 
now the city. As the population increased, the well water be- 
came polluted by organic matter, and insufficient in quantity 
for the growing wants of the community and the citizens sought 
more ample sources of supply. In 1774, when the city's popu- 
lation was 22,000, Christopher Colles made to the Common 
Council a proposition providing for the construction of a water 
works; to erect a large reservoir on Manhattan Island, into 
which water was to be pumped by means of a steam 
engine, and to distribute the water from the reservoir by pipes 
laid in the streets. Mr. Colles' proposal was accepted and in 
1776 the works were put in operation; the water was conveyed 
to consumers through hollow logs laid in the principal streets. 
During the Revolution the project was abandoned, and the agi- 
tation for a water supply was not revived until 1785; then 
various plans were suggested; in the mean time water was 
being secured from wells. In 1798, the Bronx River, in West- 
chester county, was strongly recommended as a proper source 
of the water supply of the city. Although this river was seri- 
ously considered and advocated by prominent engineers, who 
were confident that it could be depended upon, even in the 
driest seasons, to furnish an ample quantity of pure water by 
gravity alone, it did not appear to fill all requirements. Even 
the proposed addition of the Rye ponds, the Byram River and 
the Saw Mill River, also in the county, as tributaries, did not 
secure the selection of the Bronx. Then followed the trial of 
all kinds of schemes for supplying the city with water, to bring 
it from New Jersey, Connecticut and elsewhere, and the cun- 
ning politician did not fail to make good use of the city's ne- 
cessity as a means of putting money in his purse. 

In 1799 a bill was submitted to the Legislature by the New 
York Common Council having for its object the granting to 
that city the necessary powers for constructing water works. 
The bill was opposed by Aaron Burr, who was a member of 
Assembly, and other influential citizens, who wished to take 
advantage of the situation and advance a scheme of their own. 
This strong opposition compelled the Common Council to pass 
a resolution requesting the Legislature to make such laws iis 
might be deemed proper for accomplishing the introduction 



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of an ample water supply and the improvement of the sani- 
tary condition of the city. This action of the Council was what 
Aaron Uurr and his friends desired to enable them to carry 
through their scheme, which was to obtain a charter for a 
new bank. At that time there were only two institutions of 
this character in the city, viz., the Bank of New York and a 
branch of the United States Bank; both were under control 
of the Federalists, and it was charged that they were influenced 
in making discounts, to a considerable degree, by politics. In 
the interests of his political adherents, Burr determined to 
establish a bank. The opposition of the Federalists in the 
Legislature, and the great prejudice against banks which ex- 
isted at the time, made it almost impossible to obtain a charter 
for a new bank. Burr conceived the idea of obtaining a per- 
petual charter for a bank, disguised as a water company, 
and accomplished his purpose by an adroit use of the pressing 
need of a better water-supply, and by hoodwinking his politi- 
cal opponents. As the result of Burr's labors, the Legislature, 
on April 2, 1799, incorporated the Manhattan Company, (known 
now as the Manhattan Bank,) under, ^'An act for supplying 
the city of New York with pure and wholesome water." The 
capital stock of the company was not to exceed two million 
dollars divided into shares of fifty dollars each. The City of 
New York was permitted to subscribe for two thousand shares 
of the capital stock and availed itself of this privilege. The 
water was to be introduced into the city within ten years of 
the passage of the act. The eighth clause of the charter, which 
attracted but little attention at the time, was in fact the most 
important one. This clause reads, ''and be it further enacted 
that it shall and may be lawful for the said company to em- 
ploy all such surplus capital as may belong or accrue to the 
said company in the purchase of public or other stock, or in 
any other moneyed transactions or operations not inconsistent 
with the constitution and laws of this State, or of the United 
States, for the sole benefit of the said company." Taking ad- 
vantage of powers thus bestowed, the Manhattan Company im- 
mediately established a bank, the principal design of the in- 
corporators, and did no more toward introducing water than 
was necessary to maintain the charter. 

In December, 1831, it looked as if the New York Common 
Council would decide that the source which united the most 
advantages was the Bronx River, when Cyrus Swan, President 
of the New York and Sharon Canal Company, addressed a com- 
munication to the Council, in which he claimed that, "a supply 
which shall be adequate to the present and future wants of the 



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city" could only be obtained from the Croton River. Col. De 
Witt Clinton was the first eminent engineer who recommended 
the Croton River as the proper source of the water supply of 
New York, and outlined the plans of an aqueduct from the Cro- 
ton Valley to New York city; this he did in a report submitted 
to the Common Council December 22, 1832. In that report he 
said, "In the Croton River, at Pine's Bridge, there is never less 
than 20,000,000 gallons of water passing in every twenty-four 
hours. The river at this point is therefore capable of supply- 
ing one million of people, allowing a consumption of twenty 
gallons to each person. This supply can be augmented by con- 
structing reservoirs; that one reservoir could be constructed, 
which would supply more than seven millions of gallons per 
day, within a few miles of Pine's Bridge. But if it were ne- 
cessary, more than seven thousand acres could be ponded, and 
the water raised from six to sixteen feet on it; and also other 
supplies could be obtained, as I have before stated alluding to 
the Sharon Canal route and the east branch of the Croton 
River. The supply may therefore be considered as inexhaus- 
tible, as it is not at all probable that the city will ever require 
more than it can provide." 

The report of D. B. Douglass, Chief Engineer, acting under 
the City Water Commissioners, made November 1, 1833, in- 
fluenced the authorities to decide that the only proper source 
of water supply for the city of New York, within a reasonable 
distance, was the Croton River. On May 2, 1834, the Legis- 
lature passed an act authorizing the city to raise, by selling 
bonds, $2,500,000 for constructing the water works. At an 
election held in the city on the 14th, 15th and 16th of April, 
1835, citizens voted in favor of constructing the aqueduct, etc. 
The city began in July, of the same year, the work of con- 
struction. 

Owners of land adjacent to the Croton River, were opposed 
to what they termed the confiscation of their property, land ne- 
cessary to be acquired for the purpose in hand. They deter- 
mined to stand together, and if possible, fight off the alleged 
invaders, who would take their property by condemnation pro- 
ceedings. They held public indignation meetings and sent 
memorials to the Legislature. To appease the property own- 
ers, the Legislature, on May 25, 1836, passed an act which pro- 
vided that the city of New York could only acquire, in con- 
nection with the aqueduct, such lands as were absolutely 
needed for the purposes of introducing water into the city of 
New York; that the city should erect and maintain convenient 
passes across or under the aqueduct, wherever the aqueduct 



34 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



should pass through a piece of land belonging to one or more 
individuals; and that the city should erect and maintain fences 
along the aqueduct where needed. This act did not have the 
desired effect of conciliating the rebellious land owners, and 
at a public meeting held at Tarrytown, in June, the latter de- 
cided to test the constitutionality of the laws under which the 
property required for the aqueduct was to be condemned. This 
opposition finally resulted in the city of New York having to 
obtain the needed property by appraisement. 

Ground for the Croton Aqueduct was broken in May, 1837. 
The work was to be completed within three years' time. Dur- 
ing 1839, 3,000 to 4,000 laborers were employed on the line of 
work. By the end of 1839, only 14 miles of 41 miles of the 
aqueduct and pipe-line from Croton Lake to the distributing 
reservoir remained unfinished. Several strikes for higher 
wages occurred among the laborers, which greatly retarded the 
progress of the work ; during a strike, which oj^curred in April, 
1838, the laborers while drunk engaged in a desperate fight, 
killing one of their number and wounding many others; in 
April, 1840, the militia had to be called out to suppress rioting 
of a serious nature which had been started by strikers intent 
on destroying property, if not the lives of those in charge of 
the work of construction. On January 8, 1841, a great freshet 
occurred, which caused the destruction of the new Croton 
Aqueduct Dam and the loss of life. An unusually heavy rain 
storm had lasted over one week with but little intermission, the 
eighteen inches of snow, that lay upon the ground previous to 
the rain storm, melted and contributed to help swell and over- 
run the Croton River; the pressure of the heavy body of water 
proved too much for the dam; when the break came, the mad 
waters rushed down its course with a force so resistless that 
the freshet carried destruction to all that came in its path, 
tearing up earth, stones and trees, sweeping away bridges, 
turning over and hurrying along in wreck, dwelling houses, 
factories, mills, etc.; a previous warning of impending danger 
saved the lives of many people residing below the dam on the 
banks of the Croton, the men who perished by drowning were 
several who tarried too long in their desire to save all property 
possible. The damage sustained by property owners, owing 
to this freshet, was estimated at two hundred thousand dollars, 
the damage done to the dam was announced at about forty 
thousand dollars. The dam was shortly after rebuilt. 

On June 8 and 9, 1842, the Aqueduct Commissioners and their 
engineers made a final inspection of the work, walking through 
the conduit from Croton Lake to the Harlem River, a distance 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 35 

of thirty-three miles. On June 22, at 5 a. m., 18 inches of 
water was admitted into the aqueduct. On June 27, at 4 p. m., 
water was admitted into the north division of the receiving 
reservoir; the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Mayor 
and other distinguished personages were present, a salute of 
thirty-eight guns was fired, etc. On July 4, at 5. a. m., water 
was admitted into the distributing reservoir. On October 14, 
1842, the introduction of water into New York city was cele- 
brated by a grand military and civic procession, in which many 
thousands of people took part. The total cost of the construc- 
tion of the old Croton Aqueduct, including land, interest on 
water stock, etc., amounted to |11,452,619.61. This sum in- 
cludes the cost of High Bridge, which was not completed until 
November, 1848. 



The necessity of providing a new aqueduct was recognized 
by the New York city authorities as early as 1875. It was be- 
lieved that the danger of an interruption of the water supply 
threatened the city on account of the alleged bad condition of 
the old aqueduct at certain points. Also, it was asserted, that 
the city was suffering from a scarcity of water, while millions 
of gallons were running to waste over the Croton Dam. Isaac 
Newton, Chief Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, in a report 
dated April 11, 1881, recommended that the work of building 
a new aqueduct from the Croton Valley, be commenced at once. 
The Legislature, on June 1, 1883, passed an act authorizing 
the construction of a new aqueduct, dam, etc., and the appoint- 
ment of commissioners, etc. The xVqueduct Commissioners 
modified the original plans so that the location of the aqueduct 
from its inlet to Yonkers was changed from a line commencing 
at the proposed Quaker Bridge Dam and following the Hudson 
River, to an inner line beginning at Croton Lake and follow- 
ing the valley of the Saw Mill River, to make it possible to 
draw water from the present Croton Lake through the new 
aqueduct, and to avoid the large outlay for land damages which 
would result in attempts to acquire valuable property along the 
Hudson River. 

The construction of the new aqueduct was commenced in 
January, 1885; by July 15, 1890, the work was sufficiently ad- 
vanced to admit a flow of water through the new aqueduct 
from Croton Lake to the Central Park reservoir, and on June 
24, 1891, the aqueduct completed was turned over to the De- 
partment of Public Works of New York city. The work of con- 
structing a reservoir on the east branch of the Croton River 
was commenced in 18S8; the Sodom storage basin was com- 



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pleted July 25, 1891, the Bog Brook basin, March 25, 1892. On 
February 18, 1890, a contract was awarded for a reservoir on 
the Titicus River, near Purdy's, and its completion was an- 
nounced January 1, 1895; on September 19, 1890, a contract for 
a reservoir on the west branch of the Croton, near Carmel, was 
awarded, and was completed in 1896. The construction of a 
large reservoir on the lower Croton was decided upon January 
22, 1891; the contract for the new Croton Dam, which is to form 
this reservoir and which is located in the town of Cortlandt and 
about one and a quarter miles above the site at the Quaker 
Bridge proposed originally, was given out August 26, 1892. 
When these new reservoirs, together with the reservoir being 
constructed on the Muscott River, near Amawalk, are com- 
pleted, the capacity of the reservoirs in the Croton watershed 
will be about 73,0(30,000,000 U. S. gallons, and insure a daily 
supply of about 300,000,000 gallons, whereas, in 1883, the total 
capacity amounted to 7,000,000,000 gallons. 

The total cost of the new reservoirs, aqueduct, four waste- 
weirs and everything required for delivering the water in New 
York city, was, in 1882, estimated at $14,460,640, not including 
land or land damages; |4,000,000 of this amount being allowed 
for the cost of constructing the Quaker Bridge dam and reser- 
voir. Up to 1896 the total amount expended for construction, 
land, salaries, etc., was |29,255,576.25. 

During the construction of the new aqueduct, and up to Jan- 
uary 1, 1895, ninety-two lives were lost and one hundred and 
fifty-five persons were injured; nine men were killed and three 
injured in the building of the dams. 

The watershed of the Croton, extending about thirty-three 
miles north and south, and eleven miles east and west, is situ- 
ated almost entirely within the State of New York, a small por- 
tion only being in Connecticut. Its area amounts to about 339 
square miles above the old Croton dam, and to 360 square miles 
above the new Croton dam, now being constructed. The water- 
shed is very hilly. Its surface soil is composed principally of 
sand and gravel ; clay, hardpan and peat are found in a few lo- 
calities, but only to a very limited extent. The rock formation 
consists generally of gneiss. Strata of limestone, some micae- 
ous and talcose slates, veins of granite, serpentine and iron 
ore occur in a few places. The Croton River is located entirely 
in the State of New York ; is formed of three branches (known 
as the east, the middle and the west branch), which rise in the 
southern part of Dutchess county, flow in a southerly direction 
through Putnam county and unite near its south boundary; the 
river continues in a southwesterlv course across Westchester 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 37 

county to the Hudson River, into which it empties at Croton 
Point, and thirty miles from New York city; the Titicus, the 
Cross, the Kisco and the Muscoot rivers are the principal tribu- 
taries of the Croton River. Thirty-one lakes and ponds fed by 
streams and springs are contained in the Croton watershed; 
many of them have been utilized as natural storage-basins by 
cutting down their outlets and building dams across the same. 

Lake Mahopac, Lake Kirk, Lake Gleueida, Lake Gilead and 
Barrett's Pond are among the streams belonging to New York 
city and from which water is drawn to furnish the necessary 
supply. As rules and regulations made by the New York State 
Board of Health, to prevent pollution of the Croton water, and 
protect the purity of New York city's water supply were to a 
great degree ignored, the State Legislature in March, 1893, 
passed an act providing for the sanitary protection of the 
sources of the water supply, to permit the city of New York to 
condemn all property adjacent to any stream, pond, or reser- 
voir, used for the city's water supply; to take energetic 
measures to remove all sources of pollution from the Croton 
watershed. In accordance with this act, the city is acquiring 
gradually a margin of about three hundred feet around all re- 
servoirs and along all streams emptying into the same. 

The additional land required for the construction of the New 
Croton Reservoir has been taken from the towns of Cortlandt, 
Yorktown, New Castle, Bedford, Somers, Lewisboro and North 
Salem, in Westchester county, covering an area of 6,398,244 
acres. From the town of Cortlandt, 752,654 acres were taken ; 
from the town of Yorktown, 1,752,932 acres were taken; from 
the town of New Castle, 154.697 acres; from the town of Bed- 
ford, 801.860 acres ; from the town of Lewisboro, 850.236 acres ; 
from the town of North Salem, 351.823 acres; from the town of 
Somers, 1,925.042 acres, making a total of 6,398.244 acres. 
Takings, under provisions of Chapter 490 of the Laws of 1883, 
were commenced in the years 1892, 1894, 1895 and 1897. 

Many attractive residence localities in the territory taken 
will soon be, if not so already, among the things of the past. 
What was known as the village of Katonah, in the town of Bed- 
ford, has become extinct, and is now only a matter of history; 
its buildings, appraised and sold by order of New York city, 
have vanished; many of the frame dwellings and business 
structures were removed, intact, one mile distant south to the 
new settlement where old residents of Katonah are establishing 
new homes and a new resident village, to be known as New 
Katonah. Whitlockville and Woods Bridge, also in the town 
of Bedford, will pass out as did old Katonah, and its people will 



28 MANUAL. AND CIVIL LIST. 

tiiid habitations elsewhere. The thriving locality of Purdy 
Station, or a greater part thereof, shares the fate of Katonah, 
and will lie in peace hereafter as a part of the bed of the new 
reservoir; Purdy Station is within the township of North 
Salem. Pine's Bridge, in the town of Yorktown, lying close 
to the borders of Croton Lake, attractive and popular as a 
summer resort, and famous as the scene of numerous hard 
fought and exciting political conventions, held in the interest 
of all parties, likewise will be submerged. Croton Falls, in the 
town of North Salem, will contribute a portion of its territory, 
a section lying near and just west of the Harlem Railroad 
station. A tribute has also been laid upon Golden's Bridge, in 
the town of Lewisboro , and it will relinquish a portion of its 
land, near the railroad station. The Huntersville section of 
the town of Cortlandt, well-known to sportsmen, as it is famous 
for its excellent trout brooks; the Quaker Meeting House lo- 
cality, in the town of New Castle, the Wiremill Bridge, in the 
town of Cortlandt, and other localities of historic interest, are 
among the places that will be extinguished, and ''go under 
with the flood." 

To give some idea of the amount of property recently ac- 
quired in Westchester county for this reservoir, mention is made 
of the fact that the distance around said property is seventy- 
five miles. Not only handsome residences and choice building 
sites, but church edifices and public school buildings are among 
the property condemned. As might be expected, numerous 
cemeteries were found located within the territory required 
and taken; at the expense of the city of New York, bodies were 
removed from these cemeteries and re-interred elsewhere in 
accordance with the wishes of relatives or friends. The old 
highways on the condemned land, taken by the city, have been 
left open for public travel until such time as the city shall 
substitute others, which right the city is now endeavoring to 
obtain from property owners. 

Getting possession of the aforesaid land was found by the 
authorities of the City of New York to be no easy matter. As 
of old, when the first attempt was made to acquire necessary 
land, property owners rebelled and refused to favorably con- 
sider the matter of giving up homes cherished on account of old 
associations, under whose roof they, and doubtless their fathers, 
had first witnessed the light of day; many of the owners were 
well advanced in years, and they looked upon a removal from 
the old homestead as little less than a sacrilege. Condemna- 
tion proceedings were prescribed by law, and Commissions of 
Appraisal, composed of three Commissioners each, had to be 



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appointed by a Supreme Court Justice, to which Commissioners 
was given the duty of deciding as to the just value of the many 
parcels of property contained in the different proceedings. 
Witnesses to the number of thousands were examined, both for 
the property owners and for the city, requiring the expenditure 
of much time and labor on the part of the Commissioners. In 
a majority of cases the property owner was dissatisfied with 
the Commissioners' award, and in some instances, those who 
could afford to await developments, refused to accept the 
amounts tendered and served notice of appeal to the courts. 

It is hoped that those who, naturally, regret having to part 
with old homes and familiar landmarks, will find ssatisfactory 
consolation in the knowledge that their sacrifice was necessary 
to insure to a great city an adequate water supply to contribute 
to the health and welfare of nearly two millions of human 
beings, and rejoice in the fact that they are specially privileged 
when, as in this instance, they are permitted to become great 
public benefactors, and consider all for the best, though com- 
pelled with the poet to say: 

"I can't but say it is an awkward sight 

To see one's native land receding through 
The growing waters; it unmans one quite." 



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State Constitutional Conventions and Amendments, 



The Fourth Provincial Congress, which convened at White 
Plains, in this county, on July 9, 1776, adopted unanimously cer- 
tain resolutions that had for their object the change of name 
of that body and the creation of the State of New York. On 
the first of August, following, a committee, composed of thir- 
teen members of the newly organized ''Convention of Represen- 
tatives of the State of New York," was appointed to prepare a 
form of government. Couverueur Morris, of this eounty, was 
made one of that committee. On March 12, 1777, the first Con- 
stitution of the State of New York was reported by the said 
committee, and on April 20, 1778, the Constitution was legally 
adopted. 

On July 26, 1788, the State convention which met at Pough- 
keepsie and ratified the Federal Constitution, recommended to 
Congress by a convention which met at Philadelphia for the 
purpose, in September, 1787, was attended by Thaddeus Crane, 
Lewis Morris, Richard Hatfield, Philip Livingston, Philip Van 
Cortlandt and Lott W. Saris, regularly elected delegates from 
this county. 

In the Constitutional Convention, which was held at Albany, 
in October, 1801, under call of the Legislature, and which de- 
cided as to the powers of the Governor and other State oflQcers, 
and arranged number of Senators and Assemblymen to be 
elected, the delegates attending from this county were, Pierre 
V^an Cortlandt, Jr., Thomas Ferris, Jonathan G. Tompkins, 
Israel Honeywell and Ebenezer White. 

In October, 1821, at Albany, another convention was held, to 
more definitely define in the Constitution the powers and duties 
of State officers. Peter A. Jay, Jonathan W^ard and Peter J. 
Munroe served as delegates elected from this county. 

The Constitutional Convention held at Albany, in October, 
1846, was a most important one, considering the results. The 
Constitution recommended, and subsequently adopted, ex- 
tended the elective franchise; most of the general and local 
officers, heretofore appointed by the Governor and Legislature, 
were made elective, by the people; the Court of Appeals was 
created, and other benefits bestowed. Aaron Ward and John 
Hunter were the county's representatives to this convention. 

In the Constitutional Convention of 1867, which convened in 
Albany on June 4, of that year, and adjourned February 28, 
1868. Robert Cochran and Abraham B. Tappan, of this county, 
with Abraham R. Conger and William H. Morris, represented 
the Ninth Senatorial District. Horace Greeley and Waldo 



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Hutchins, also residents of the county, were members of the 
convention, two of the thirty-two delegates elected at large. 
The Constitution proposed by this convention was submitted 
to the people in 1869 and rejected, by a vote of 223,935 in favor, 
to 290,456 against, except the Judiciary article, which was 
adopted by a vote of 247,240 in favor, to 240,442 against. The 
Judiciary article adopted opposed a change in the selection of 
Judges and Surrogates; favored their election by the people in 
opposition to their appointment. 

In 1872, on recommendation of Governor Hoffman, the Leg- 
islature passed an act authorizing the Governor, by and with 
the consent of the Senate, to designate thirty-two persons, four 
from each Judicial District, two from each of the two great po- 
litical parties, to constitute a commission for the purpose of re- 
vising the State Constitution and reporting the result of their 
action to the Legislature in 1873. Odle Close was appointed to 
represent this county on that commission, his associates from 
this Judicial District being Erastus Brooks, of Richmond 
County, Benjamin D. Silliman, of Kings County and John J. 
Armstrong, of Queens County. 

In 1879, on the question being submitted by the Legislature, 
the electors of this the Second Judicial District by a vote of 
95,331 in favor, to 25,578 against, favored an amendment of the 
Constitution so as to permit of the election of an additional 
Justice of the Supreme Court in this district. 

The Constitution was further amended in 1880 by a vote of 
the people of the State, so as to provide that Judges of the 
Court of Appeals and Justices of the Supreme Court, retired, 
under the Constitutional limitation of age, and who shall have 
served ten years or more, shall receive in full the amount of their 
salary during the remainder of the terms for which they were 
elected; and so as to authorize Judges of the City Court of 
Brooklyn to hold circuits and special tei*ms of the Supreme 
Court in the County of Kings. 

In 1882 the electors of this the Second Judicial District 
voted to further amend the Constitution so as to permit of the 
election of one additional Justice of the Supreme Court. 

The Constitution was amended by a vote of the people of the 
State, in 1884, so as to prohibit counties, towns, cities and vil- 
lages from giving or loaning their property or credit except for 
county, city, town or village purposes, unless it be for aid or 
support of the local poor. 

In the last Constitutional Convention, which convened at Al- 
bany, May 15, 1894, this Senatorial District was represented by 
Andrew C. Fields of Dobbs Ferry, John Gibney of Sing Sing, 



32 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

A. C. Hottenroth of Morrisania, and W. T. Emmet of New Ro- 
chelle. This Convention adopted tliirty-three amendments to 
the Constitution. The term of the Governor and Lieutenant- 
Governor was shortened from three years to two years; it 
arranged so that the State Senators elected in the fall of 1895 
and also the State officers then elected should serve for three 
years; thus extending the terms one year, for one term only. 
Provision was made for the election of State Senators and other 
State officers in and after 1898, for a term of two years, elections 
to be held in the even-numbered years, to give opportunity for 
the holding of municipal elections in the uneven-numbered years. 
No change in the Senate districts or apportionment of the As- 
sembly districts is to be made before 1905; when, in that year, 
a new census enumeration of the State is to be taken. 

The new Constitution, as a whole, was adopted by a vote of 
the people at the general election held November 6, 1894. 



N. 



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Old and New Court Houses. 



At the organization of the county the courts were established 
at Westchester, and were continued there until November 6, 
1759. A Court of Sessions was held at Eastchester. The 
Court House at Westchester was destroyed by fire February 4, 
1758. By an act of the Legislature passed December 6, 1758, 
the Justices and the Supervisors were directed to select a new 
site for a Court House, and an appropriation of £1,000 was pro- 
vided to meet the expense of erecting a suitable building and 
of furnishing the same; it was decided that the new Court House 
be located at White Plains. The Court House was completed 
and the Court of Common Pleas held its first session therein on 
November 7, 1759. The Provincial Convention held its ses- 
sions in this Court House a few days in July, 1776, and in front 
of it the Declaration of Independence was publicly read, upon 
its receipt by that body. This Court House was used until it 
was burned in 177G. 

To Dr. Robert Graham, who was Supervisor of White Plains 
from 1769 to 1775, and County Judge in 1778, is mainly due 
the credit of having White Plains fixed upon as the county-seat, 
having the court building erected, and having the courts re- 
moved there from Westchester. He gave to the county the 
site upon which the Court House was erected. His efforts were 
ably seconded by John Thomas, of Rye, who was then a mem- 
ber of the Colonial Assembly. Dr. Graham also, at consider- 
able expense, caused two hotels and a country store to be built, 
and thus gave the county seat a start. This Court House was 
destroyed by fire on the night of November 5, 1776, shortly after 
the battle of White Plains. General Heath, in his memoirs, 
refers toi the destruction of the Court House, in these words: 
"About 12 o'clock, this night, (November 5, 1776,) a party of 
Americans wantonly set fire to the Court House, and several 
private houses, which stood between the two armies. This 
gave great disgust to the whole American army, and drew 
from the commander-in-chief, the following paragraph, in his 
orders of the 6th : "It is with the utmost astonishment and ab- 
horrence, the General is informed, that some base and cowardly 
wretches have, last night, set fire to the Court House and other 
buildings which the enemy left. The army may rely upon it, 
that they will be brought to justice, and meet with the punish- 
ment they deserve." Pierre Van Cortlandt, of Cortlandt 
Manor, vice-president of the Committee of Public Safety, refer- 
ring to the matter, November 28th, wrote : "Unhappy am I to 
add that amidst all our sufferings, the army employed for the 



34 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

protection of America, have not refrained from embittering the 
calamities of war, at a time when the utmost resources of this 
State were laid open to their wants, and the members of Con- 
vention personally submitted- to the labor and fatigue which 
were necessary on a sudden emergency, and after frequent 
losses of provisions and barracks, to supply two numerous arm- 
ies, augmented by the militia, with every article which they re- 
quired, the Court House and the remains of the village at the 
White Plains, which had been spared on the retreat of our 
forces, were, even after the enemy had in their turn retired, 
wantonly destroyed, without the orders and to the infinite re- 
gret of our worthy General, besides, in spite of all his Excel- 
lency's efforts, wherever our troops have marched, or been sta- 
tioned, they have done infinite damage to the property of the 
people. 

''I am directed, sir, to submit it to the Hou'ble Congress, 
whether some effectual remed.y ought not to be provided 
against such disorderly and disgraceful proceedings. The sol- 
dier, w'ho plunders the country he is employed to protect, is no 
better than a robber, and ought to be treated accordingly; and 
a severe example, in the opinion of the committee, ought to be 
made of the officer who, without any necessity, or his (xeneral's 
permission, set fire to the Court House and other buildings at 
the White Plains. He is guilty of the crime of arson, and if he 
cannot be punished by the articles of war, ought to be given up 
to the laws of the land. If so glaring a violation of every 
sentiment of humanity should be passed over in silence, if the 
army is not reasonably restrained from such acts of barbarity, 
the consequence must be fatal to the cause of a people whose 
exalted glory it is to be advocates for the rights of mankind, 
against the tyranny and oppression of lawless power. The 
resolutions which the Committee of Safety have passed upon 
the subjects are herewith transmitted. I have the honor to be, 
with great respect, sir, your most obedient and very humble 
servant." 

"By order, 

'TIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, 

Vice-President." 

"To the Honorable John Hancock, 

President of the Congress of the United States." 

The resolutions, referred to above, set forth : "That the laws 
of the country are not superseded by the military code in the 
presence of the army"; and "That a letter be written to General 




OLD COURT HOUSES. 




PRESENT COURT HOUSE. 



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Washington, requesting that the officer directing the burning 
of the Court House and dwelling houses at the White Plains, 
be delivered to this committee or the Convention of this State, 
in order to his being tried by the laws of the States, and, if 
guilty, punished thereby." 

It was charged that the order to set fire to the buildings was 
given by a New England Major. Fortunately, the records of 
the county were saved intact, having been removed and de- 
posited in a secure place by Theopilus Barton, the clerk, where 
they remained until the cessation of hostilities in 1783. 

The second Court House was erected on the site of the first, 
on Broadway, White Plains, under authority given by an act 
passed May 1, 1786. This act appropriated £1,800 for the erec- 
tion of a second Court House, at White Plains, and another 
at Bedford, under the superintendence and supervision of 
Stephen Ward, Ebenezer Lockwood, Jonathan G. Tompkins, 
Ebenezer Purdy, Thomas Thomas, Richard Hatfield and Rich- 
ard Sackett, Jr. Prisoners had previously been confined in the 
New York jail, and courts had for a time been held in the Pres- 
byterian Church at Bedford, until 1779, when that village was 
burned by a party of British light horse on their route to Fair- 
field, Conn. From 1779 to 1785 courts were held in the meeting 
house in Upper Salem. By an act of April 11, 1775, courts were 
ordered to be held in the Presbyterian meeting house, at Bed- 
ford until a new Court House should be built. 

Much to the general regret, the second Court House, at White 
Plains, which gave place to a more modern structure, together 
with the adjoining property, belonging to the county, passed 
into the hands of private parties several years ago, and the 
building was torn down, carried off and passed into the un- 
known. The remembrance is all of the historic structure that 
remains. 

The third Court House, the handsome stone structure now 
in use, and which is situated on Railroad avenue, White Plains, 
was completed in the year 1857, nearly one hundred years after 
the erection of the first; the commissioners in charge of the 
construction of the present Court House, and jail, were Super- 
visors Abraham Hatfield, of Westchester, States Barton, of 
New Rochelle, Daniel Hunt, of Lewisboro, William Marshall, 
Jr., of Somers, and George C. Finch, of North Salem; R. G. Hat- 
field was architect, and D. I. Stagg assistant and superintend- 
ent; Theodore Hunt, builder of the Court House; Seth Bird, of 
Tarrytown, builder of the jail. The amount appropriated to 
cover the cost of the building was .f 120,000. 

The Hall of Records was erected, as a wing of the Court 



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House, in 1894; Supervisors Moses W. Taylor, of Mount Pleas- 
ant, Joseph B. See, gf North Castle, Odle Close, of North Sa- 
lem, and Jacob Read, of Yonkers, were the commissioners in 
charge; Edwin A. Quick, architect. The County Jail, which 
stands in the rear of the Court House, is being enlarged, re- 
fitted with modern equipments, contributing to the security and 
care of prisoners, at an expense of $50,000. 



The Final Sitting of the 

WESTCHESTER COUNTY COURT OF SESSIONS 

Held December 31, 1895, 



The new State Constitution abolished the office of Justice of Sessions, 
and consolidated the County Court and the County Court of Sessions 
under the title of County Court. The change took effect January 1, 1896. 
On this latter date, also, Isaac N. Mills retired from the office of County 
Judge. 

In the engraving of the interior of the County Court room, here 
given from photograph taken upon above date, just before final adjourn- 
ment, appear the portraits of County Judge Isaac N. Mills ; Justices of 
Sessions Edward B. Kear and Robert J. Bellew ; Court Clerk M. James 
Mooney ; Court Stenographer Harvey Htisted ; Court Crier James C. 
Campbell ; Surrogate Theodore H. Silkman ; County Clerk John M. 
Digney : Commissioner of Jurors I. Howard Kinch ; Deputy Commis- 
sioner of Jurors Harold Kinch ; Librarian Frederick F. Miller : Coun- 
sellors "William Porter Allen, Henry C. Henderson, David H. Hunt and 
Henry C. Griffin ; Court Officers John C. Verplanck, Leonard Banks, 
Michael Matthews, George S. Merritt, Charles H. Flandreau and Edgar 
R. Riley ; Janitor Thomas Zimmerman. Of this number, Messrs. Mooney 
and Matthews have since died. 



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Supreme Court, Second Judicial District. 

Under the Constitution of 1846 an independent Court of 
Appeals was established and the present Supreme Court 
created. Justices of the Supreme Court are to be chosen by 
the electors of their respective districts; their official term being 
fourteen years; no person can hold the office of Justice longer 
than until the last day of December next after he shall have 
reached the age of seventy years; they receive compensation 
to be established by law, which shall not be diminished during 
their official term, the same being paid by the State Treasurer. 
The salary of a Supreme Court Justice was |2,500, but by an 
act of the Legislature, passed April 18, 1857, the compensation 
was increased to |3,500 per annum. The compensation has 
since been increased until it is, in this Judicial District, |7,20() 
per annum, with an extra allowance of |2,500 for expenses, etc., 
per annum; Justices residing in King's county are paid a still 
larger extra compensation; the salary of the Justices 
of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial District, is fixed 
by special laws. A Justice whose term of office has been 
abridged by limitation of age may, with his consent, be as- 
signed by the Governor to any duty in the Supreme Court, 
while his compensation is continued. Under the Constitution 
of 1846, and prior to 1870, the State was divided into eight 
judicial districts, as it is to-day; the first district was assigned 
five Justices, and the remaining districts four each, and were 
so classified that one in each district should go out of office 
every two years; the term of office was eight years. New 
Constitutions and Constitutional amendments have from time 
to time increased the number of Justices of the Supreme Court 
until this, the Second Judicial District, at the present time, has 
in office twelve active and two retired Justices, the latter as- 
signed by the Governor to hold special terms. The following 
are the names of the person who have served, and the years 
in which they were elected, as Justices of the Supreme Court in 
the Second Judicial District, which is composed of the coun- 
ties of Richmond, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Westchester, Orange, 
Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess, and that part of New York 
county annexed, taken from Westchester county: 

Selah E. Strong, Setauket, June 7, 1847. 

William T. McCoun, Newburgh, June 7, 1847. 

Nathan B. Morse, Brooklyn, June 7, 1847. 

Seward Barculo, Poughkeepsie, June 7, 1847. 

John W. Brown, Newburgh, November 6, 1849. 

Selah P.. Strong, Setauket, November 9, 1851. 



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William Rockwell, Biooklyu, November 8, 1853. 

Gilbert Deau, I'oughkeepsie, June 2G, 1854. 

James Emoil, Pouglikeepsie, November G, 1855. 

Lucieu Birdseye, Brooklyn, August 13, 185G. 

John W. lirowu, Newburgli, November 3, 1857. 

Joliu A. Loll, Brooklyu, November 3, 1857. 

William W. Serugliam, Youkers, November 8, 1859. 

John A. Lott, Brooklyn, November 5, 18G1. 

Joseph F. Barnard, lV)ughkeepsie, November 3, 1SG3. 

Jasper W. Gilbert, Brooklyu, November 5, 18G5. 

William Fullerton, Newburgh, August 30, 18G7. 

Abraham B. Tappan. Tuckahoe, November 5, 18G7. 

Calvin E. Pratt, Brooklyn, November 2, 1869. 

Jackson O. Dykman, White Plains, November 2, 1875. 

Calvin E. Pratt, Brooklyn, November 1, 1877. 

Erastus Cooke, Brooklyu, March 3, 1S80. 

Edgar M. Cullen, Brooklyn, November 2, 1880. 

Charles F. Brown, Newburgh, November 7, 1882. 

Williard Bartlett, Brooklyu, November G, 1883. 

Joseph F. Barnard, Poughkeepsie, November, 1885. 

Jackson O. Dykman, White Plains, November, 1889. 

Calvin E. Pratt, Brooklyn, November, 1891. 

William J. Gaynor, Brooklyn, November, 1893. 

Edgar M. Cullen, Brooklyn, November, 1894. 

Martin J. Keogh, New Kochelle, November 5, 1895. 

William D. Dickey, Newburgh, November 5, 1895. 

Wilmot F. Smith, Patchogue, November 5, 1895. 

Samuel T. Maddox, Brooklyn, November 3. 1896. 

Michael H. Hirschberg, Newburgh, November 3, 1896. 

Garret J. Garretson, Elmhurst, November 3, 189G. 

William W. Goodrich, Brooklyn, appointed in 1896 in place 
of Calvin E. Pratt, deceased, and elected. November 3, 1S9G. 

Wiilard Bartlett, Brooklyn, November 2, 1897. 

The new Constitution adopted in November, 1891, added 
three new Supreme Court Justices to the district, by abolish- 
ing the City Court of Brooklyn and causing Nathaniel H. 
Clement. William J. Osborne and Augustus Van Wyck, Judges 
of that court, to become Justices of the Supreme Court. Jus- 
tice Clements' term expired January 1, 1896: Justice Osborne 
died in 1897, and is succeeded by Jesse Johnson, of Brooklyn, 
appointed by the Governor, and whose term expires Decern 
ber 31, 1898; Justice A^an Wvck's term expires December 31, 
1898. 

Of the early Justices. Seward Barculo died in office, on June 
17, 1854. and was succeeded by Gilbert Dean, appointed; Wil- 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 89 

liam Rockwell died in office, on July 20, 1850, and was succeed- 
ed by Lucien Birdseye, appointed; John A. Lott succeeded 
Birdseye, by election; William W. Hcrugham died in office, 
August 9, 1807, three months and twenty-two days before his 
term expired, and was succeeded by William Fullerton, ap- 
pointed. Justice Joseph Barnard was retired in 1895, having 
reached the age limit; each year since that time he has been 
assigned by the Governor to hold Special Terms. Justice J. O. 
Dykman was retired in 1890, owing to age limit; he, also, is 
assigned by the Governor to hold Special Terms. Justice 
Barnard holds special terms in Poughkeepsie. Justice Dyk- 
man and Keogh hold special terms, in White Plains, on Sat- 
urdays, in every month except August; Justice Dykman will 
sit in January and every alternate month during 1898, Justice 
Keogh in other months. 



APPELLATE DIVISIOlSr, SUPREME COURT, SECOISTD JUDICIAL 
DISTRICT. 

William W. Goodrich, Presiding Justice, and Edgar M. Cul- 
len, Willard Bartlett, Edward W. Hatch and John Wodward, 
Justices. 

John B. Byrne, clerk, salary |5,000; Robert A. Sedgwick, 
deputy clerk, salary |3,500; George A. Price, crier, salary 
$1,200; four attendants at |1,200 each. 



CONFIDENTIAL CLERKS TO JUSTICES. 

An act passed by the Legislature, May 20, 1890, authorizes 
each Justice of the Supreme Court, other than a Justice of 
the Appellate Division, residing in the Second Judicial Dis- 
trict, not including the county of Kings,(where similar clerks 
are provided for, and paid as salary |2,000 per annum,) to ap- 
point and employ a confidential clerk, whose duty it shall be 
to attend the sittings of the said court at all special terms 
and trial terms presided over by the Justice by whom appoint- 
ed, and to perform such other duties as shall be assigned to 
him by said Justice. The salary of said clerk shall not exceed 
the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per year. The appointee 
to hold office during the pleasure of the Justice. The sum of 
money to pay said salaries shall be raised by tax levied and 
collected upon the taxable property of the counties of Suffolk, 
Queens, Richmond, W^estchester, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess 



40 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

and Putnam, in the Second Judicial District. Followiug are 
the names of persons holding such position, name of Justice 
by whom appointed, and the salary received by each: 

Joseph F. Flattery, appointed by Justice Keogh, salary |1,800. 

Frank R. Dickey, appointed by Justice Dickey, salary |2,000, 

Ryland G. Palmer, appointed by Justice Smith, salary $1,800. 

Geo. Gretsinger, appointed by Justice Johnson, salary |2,000. 

Geo. A. Morse, appointed by Justice Goodrich, salary, $2,000. 

Wm. W. Ford, appointed by Justice Dykman, salary -$1,800. 

A. J. Buttling, appointed by Justice Hirschberg, salary |1,800. 

James Kohler, appointed by Justice Gaynor, salary |2,000. 

E. P. Deubett, appointed by Justice Maddox, salary $2,000. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 41 

State Senators RepresentiDg the County. 

In the formation of Senatorial Districts in compliance with 
the first Constitution, Westchester county was put into and 
made a part of the Southern District, together with the counties 
of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond and Suffolk. By an 
act of April, 1815, this county was associated in the same dis- 
trict with Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, New York, Kings, 
Queens, Richmond and Suffolk counties. 

Under the second Constitution, and until 1846, Westchester 
was in the second district, together with the counties of Dut- 
chess, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Queens and 
Suffolk. 

On a reassignment, made under the Constitution of 1846, 
Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties composed one 
district, the 7th; under an act of April 13, 1857, the same coun- 
ties were made to form the 8th district; by act of April 25, 1866, 
the same counties became the 9th district; the act of April 23, 
1879, made Westchester and Rockland counties the 12th dis- 
trict. 

First Session of the State Senate, held in Kingston and 
Poughkeepsie, 1777-1778, was presided over by Pierre Van 
Cortlandt, who with Lewis Morris, represented this county. 
Senator Van Cortlandt was chosen Lieutenant-Governor, June 
30, 1778. 

Sessions of the Senate from 1778 were attended by Lewis 
Morris, Stephen Ward, Philip Van Cortlandt, Philip Living- 
ston, Ebenezer Purdy, Thomas Thomas, Jonathan Ward, in 
their turn, until the year 1823. 

During the 46th Session, the first under the second Constitu- 
tion, John Hunter represented this county. 

In the 47th, 48th, 49th and 50th Sessions, the district was 
represented by William Nelson, of this county. The same 
men in rotation continued to represent the county up to and in- 
cluding the 70th Session. 

The 71st and 72d, 1848-49, the first under the third Consti- 
tution, that of 1846, the 7th district, composing the counties 
of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam, was represented by 
Saxton Smith, of Putnam county. 

During the 73d and 74th Sessions, 1850-51, the 7th distnct 
was represented by Benjamin Brandreth, of this county. 

Abraham B. Conger, of Rockland county, represented the dis- 
trict in the 75th and 76th Sessions, 1852-53. 

The district was represented in the 77th and 78th Sessions, 
1854-55, by William H. Robertson, of this connty. 



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In the 79th and 80th Sessions, 1856-57, John W. Ferdon, of 
Rockland county, represented the district. 

The district, now changed to the 8th, was represented in the 
Sessions of 1858-59, the 81st and 82d, by Benjamin Brandreth, 
of this county. 

In the 83d, 84th, 85th, and 86th Sessions, 1860-63, Hezekiah 
D. Robertson, of this county, represented the district. 

The district was represented in the 87th and 88th Sessions, 
1864-65, by Saxton Smith, of Putnam county. 

Edmund G. Sutherland, of this county, acted during the 89th 
and 90th Sessions, 1866-67. 

In 1867 the district was renumbered, and became the 9th; 
William Cauldwell, of this county, serving during the 91st, 
92d, 93d and 94th Sessions, 1868-71. 

William H. Robertson, of this county, represented the dis- 
trict in the 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, 101st, 102nd, 
103rd and 104th, 1872-81. In 1879 the district was changed to 
the 12th. 

During the 105th, 106th, 107th, 108th, 109th, and 110th Ses- 
sions, 1882-87, Henry C. Nelson, of this county, represented the 
district. 

William H. Robertson, of this county, served the district in 
the 111th, 112th, 113th, and 114th Sessions, 1888-91. 

In the 115th and 116th Sessions, 1892-93, the district was 
served by Charles P. McClelland, of this county. 

The district was represented in the 117th and 118th Sessions, 
1894-95, by George W. Robertson, of this county. 

By the Constitution of 1894, the county of Westchester, to- 
gether with the town of Westchester, and parts of the towns of 
Eastchester and Pelham, recently annexed to New York city, 
are made to comprise the 22d Senatorial District. James Irv- 
ing Burns, of Youkers, served during the 119th, 120th and 121st 
Sessions, 1896 to 1899. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 43 

The County's Members of Assembly. 

The first State apportionment, made April 20, 1777, gave to 
Westchester County six representatives in the lower house of 
the State Legislature, out of a total of seventy representatives. 
In the second apportionment, that of February 7, 1791, the 
county's representation was reduced to five, the total member- 
ship in the house being 108; on March 31, 1802, a fourth appor- 
tionment gave this county but four representatives out of a 
total of 100; on April 1, 1808, when the fifth apportionment was 
made the county dropped to three, the total in the house being 
112; in the apportionments made April 8, 1815, April 12, 1822, 
April 18, 1826, the county's representation was continued as 
three; on May 23, 183(3, it was lowered to two; on April 13, 1857, 
the representation was raised again to three, at which figure 
it has remained since. 

Kepresentatives to the Colonial Assemblies, to the Provin- 
cial Congresses and State Assemblies, were elected at large on 
a general ticket. This was so up to the year 1846 when a new 
Constitution was adopted, which provided for the election of 
Members of Assembly by single districts, a custom still in vogue. 
The Legislature apportions to each county the number of mem- 
bers to which it is entitled and the Board of Supervisors is 
required to meet and designate what towns will compose the 
several districts so awarded. To perform this duty of redis- 
tricting, the Board of Supervisors is directed to meet after 
each State census, on a date to be fixed by the Legislature. 

The First Assembly District in this county was created in 
1847, to be composed of the towns of Bedford, Cortlandt, Lewis- 
boro, New Castle, North Salem, Ossining, Poundridge, Somers 
and Yorktown. In 1857, the district was changed so as to be 
composed of the towns of Eastchester, Morrisania, Westchester, 
West Farms and Yonkers. In 1866, Morrisania, Yonkers, 
Westchester and West Farms were designated to form the dis- 
trict. In 1879, after the annexation of certain towns to New 
York city, a new apportionment made the city of Yonkers and 
the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant form this dis- 
trict. In 1892 a reapportionment combined Eastchester 
Greenburgh, Scarsdale and the city of Yonkers to compose th^ 
district. Under the Constitution of 1894, Eastchester, the city 
of Mount Vernon and the city of Yonkers now form the district. 

The Second Assembly District was, in 1847, created by con- 
solidating the towns of Eastchester, New Rochelle, Pelham, 
Rye, Westchester, West Farms, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Mount 
Vernon, White Plains, Yonkers, Greenburgh, Scarsdale, Mor- 



44 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

risania, Mount Pleasant and North Castle. In 1857, the district 
was changed so as to be composed of the towns of White Plains, 
New Rochelle, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Pelham, Scarsdale, 
Poundridge, Greeuburgh, Mount Pleasant, Rye and North 
Castle. In 1866, the district was again changed to comprise 
the towns of Bedford, North Castle, Greenburgh, Harrison, 
New Rochelle, Eastchester, Mamaroneck, Pelham, Kye, White 
Plains and Scarsdale. In 1879, a further change was made so 
as to make White Plains, Rye, Eastchester, New Rochelle, Ma- 
maroneck, Pelham, Westchester, North Castle, Harrison and 
Scarsdale compose the district. The reapportionment of 1892 
organized the district with the towns of Harrison, Mamaro- 
neck, New Rochelle, Pelham, Rye, Westchester, and the city of 
Mount Vernon. In 1894 the present apportionment was fixed 
as follows: Greenburgh, Harrison, Mamaroneck, New- Ro- 
chelle, Pelham, Rye, Scarsdale and White Plains. 

The Third Assembly District was not organized until 1857, 
when it was composed of the towns of Ossining, Cortlandt, 
Bedford, Lewisboro, New Castle, Nprth Salem, Yorktown and 
Somers. In 1866, the district was made to comprise the towns 
of Cortlandt, Ossining, Mount Pleasant, New Castle, Pound- 
ridge, North Salem, Yorktown and Somers. In 1879, another 
change brought together the towns of Bedford, Ossining, Cort- 
landt, Yorktown, Lewisboro, Poundridge, North Salem, vSomers 
and New Castle. The reapportionment of 1892 combined 
within the district the towms of Bedford, Cortlandt, Lewisboro, 
Mount Pleasant, New Castle, North Castle, North Salem, Os- 
sining, Poundridge, Somers, White Plains and Yorktown. The 
reapportionment of 1894 associated the towns of Bedford, 
Cortlandt, Lewisboro, Mount Pleasant, New Castle, North 
Castle, North Salem, Ossining, Poundridge, Somers and York- 
town, to compose the Third District, as it is at present. 

Members of the Assembly were in Colonial times and prior 
to 1778, elected about whenever those in high authority saw 
fit to issue a writ of election. Elections were decided by a 
viva voce vote, given by electors who had assembled in one 
stated place appointed for the county meeting. Often the 
meeting place was in Westchester and later the nominating 
place was changed to White Plains. The act of March 27. 1778, 
directed that the Governor and Lieut. Governor be elected by 
ballot; the act of Feb. 13, 1787, provided for the use of the ballot 
in electing members of the Legislature. Under this act elec- 
tions were held on the last Tuesday of April, and might be held 
for five days. In 1822 the law was changed, fixing the first 
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MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 45 



providiug that the polls of the election be kept open for three 
successive days, by adjournment from place to place. In 1842 
the general election day was appointed for Tuesday succeeding 
the hrst Monday of November, and this law is still in force. 

By the Constitution of 1894, the total membership of the 
Assembly was increased from 128 to 150; the Senate from 32 
to 50. 

Following is the list of Members of Assembly from West- 
chester county from the year 1777 to the year 1899 : 

First Session. — 1777 at Kingston, 1778 at Poughkeepsie. — 
Thaddeus Crane, Samuel Drake, Robert Graham, Israel Honey- 
well, Jr., Zebediah Mills and Gouverneur Morris. 

Second Session. — 1778 and 1779 at Poughkeepsie. — Joseph 
Benedict, Thaddeus Crane, Israel Honeywell, Jr., Ebenezer 
Lockwood, Zebediah Mills and Stephen Ward. 

Third Session. — 1779 at Kingston, 1780 at Albany and King- 
ston. — Samuel Drake, Abijah Gilbert, Zebediah Mills, William 
Paulding, Philip Pell, Jr., and Ebenezer Purdy. 

Fourth Session. — 1780 at Poughkeepsie, 1781 at Albany and 
Poughkeepsie. — Samuel Drake, Philip Pell, Jr., Nathan Rock- 
well, Joseph Strang, Thomas Thomas and Jonathan G. Tomp- 
kins. 

Fifth Session. — 1781 and 1782 at Poughkeepsie. — Nathaniel 
Delevan, Abijah Gilbert, Zebediah Mills, Nathan Rockwell, 
Thomas Thomas and Jonathan G. Tompkins. 

Sixth Session. — 1782 at l*oughkeepsie, 1783 at Kingston. — 
Abijah Gilbert, Samuel Haight, John Lawrence, Zebediah Mills, 
Ebenezer Purdy and Thomas Thomas. 

Seventh Session. — 1784 at New York. — Abijah Gilbert, 
Samuel Haight, Zebediah Mills, Philip Pell, Jr., Ebenezer 
Purdy and Thomas Thomas. 

Eighth Session.— 1784 and 1785 at New York. — Ebenezer S. 
Burling, Abijah Gilbert, Ebenezer Lockwood, Philip Pell, Jr., 
Ebenezer Purdy and Thomas Thomas. 

Ninth Session. — 1786 at New York. — Samuel Drake, Abijah 
Gilbert, Ebenezer Lockwood, Philip Pell, Jr., Thomas Thomas 
and Jonathan G. Tompkins. 

Tenth Session. — 1787 at New York. — Ebenezer Lockwood, 
Ebenezer Purdy, Nathan Rockwell, Joseph Strang, Thomas 
Thomas and Jonathan G. Tompkins. 

Eleventh Session. — 1788 at Poughkeepsie. — Samuel Drake, 
Abijah Gilbert, Ebenezer Lockwood, Joseph Strang, Thomas 
Thomas and Jonathan G. Tompkins. 

Twelfth Session.— 1788 and 1789 at Albany.— Thaddeus 



46 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

Crane, Jonathan Horton, Philip Livingston, Nathan Rockwell, 
Walter Seaman and Philip Van Cortlandt. 

Thirteenth Session.— 1789 at Albany, 1790 at New York.— 
Joseph Brown, Samuel Haight, Jonathan Horton, Nathan 
Rockwell, Walter Seaman and Philip Van Cortlandt. 

Fourteenth Session. — 1791 at New York. — Peter Fleming, 
Abijah Gilbert, Samuel Haight, Jonathan Horton, Ebenezer 
Purdy and Jonathan G. Tompkins. 

Fifteenth Session. — 1792 at New York. — Samuel Haight, 
Elias Newman, Ebenezer Purdy, Jonathan G. Tompkins and 
Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. 

Sixteenth Session. — 1792 and 1793 at New York. — Elias New- 
man and Thomas Thomas. 

Seventeenth Session. — 1794 at Albany. — Richard Hatfield, 
Elias Newman, Abel Smith, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., and 
Ebenezer White. 

Eighteenth Session. — 1795 at Poughkeepsie and New York. — 
Thomas Bowne, Ebenezer Purdy, Abel Smith, Pierre Van 
Cortlandt, Jr., and Ebenezer W^hite. 

Nineteenth Session. — 1796 at New York. — Joseph Carpenter, 
Mordecai Hale, Elias Newman, Charles Teed and Abel Smith. 

Twentieth Session. — 1796 at New York, 1797 at Albany. — 
John Barker, Joseph Carpenter, Mordecai Hale, Charles Teed 
and Samuel Youngs. 

Twenty-first Session. — 1798. (This year the Legislature com- 
menced to hold its regular annual sessions at Albany.) — Wil- 
liam Adams, John Barker, Elijah Lee, Abel Smith and Charles 
Teed. 

Twenty-second Session. — 1798-1799. — William Adams, Israel 
Honeywell, Elijah Lee, Abel Smith and Charles Teed. 

Twenty-third Session. — 1800. — George Comb, Abijah Gilbert, 
Nathan Rockwell, Abel Smith and Charles Teed. 

Twenty-fourth Session.— 1800-1801.— Abijah Gilbert, Robert 
Graham, Abraham Odell, Abel Smith and Thomas Thomas. 

Twenty-fifth Session.— 1802.— Abijah Gilbert, Abraham Odell 
Abel Smith, Thomas Thomas and Joseph Travis. 

Twenty-sixth Session. — 1803. — Abijah Gilbert, Abraham 
Odell, Thomas Thomas and Joseph Travis. 

Twenty-seventh Session. — 1804. — Abijah Gilbert, Abraham 
Odell, Thomas Thomas and Joseph Travis. 

Twenty-eighth Session.— 1804-1805.— Abijah Gilbert, Abra- 
ham Odell, Caleb Tompkins and Joseph Travis. 

Twenty-ninth Session. — 1806. — Joel Frost, Philip Honeywell, 
Ezra Lockwood and Caleb Tompkins. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 47 

Thirtieth Session. — 1807. — Benjamin Barker, Benjamin 
Isaacs, Seth Marvin and Abraham Odell. 

Thirty-first Session. — 1808. — Benjamin Ferris, Joel Frost, 
Abraham Miller and Ozias Osborn. 

Thirty-second Session.— 1808-1809.— William Barker, Abra- 
ham Odell and Samuel Youngs. 

Thirty-third Session. — 1810. — William Barker, Abraham 
Odell and Samuel Youngs. 

Thirty-fourth Session. — 1811. — Darius Crosby, Abraham Mil- 
ler and Jacob Odell. 

Thirty-fifth Session. — 1812. — Darius Crosby, Abraham Miller 
and Jacob Odell. 

Thirty-sixth Session. — 1812-1813. — William Barker and Abra- 
ham Miller. 

Thirty-seventh Session. — 1814. — William Barker, Abraham 
Miller and Richard V. Morris. 

Thirty-eighth Session. — 1814-1815. — Benjamin Isaacs, Peter 
J. Munroe and William Requa. 

Thirty-ninth Session. — 1816. — Benjamin Isaacs, Abraham 
Miller and William Requa. 

Fortieth Session. — 1816-1817. — Abraham Miller, John Town- 
send and Ebenezer White, Jr. 

Forty-first Session. — 1818. — William Barker, Benjamin 
Isaacs and William Requa, 

Forty-second Session. — 1819. — William Barker, James Guion 
and William Requa. 

Forty-third Session. — 1820. — James Guion, Abraham Miller 
and William Nelson. 

Forty-fourth Session. — 1820-1821. — James Guion, Abraham 
Miller and William Kelson. 

Forty-fifth Session.— 1822.— Joseph Hunt, Thomas Smith 
and Enoch Thompson. 

Forty-sixth Session. — 1823. — Nehemiah Brown, Jr., St. John 
Constant and Thomas Smith. 

Forty-seventh Session. — 1824. — Nehemiah Brown, Jr., Ben- 
jamin Ferris and Niles Frost. 

Forty-eighth Session. — 1825. — Jeremiah Anderson, Thaddeus 
Crane and Joseph Scofield. 

Forty-ninth Session.— 1826.— Joseph Scofield, John H. Smith 
and James Wiley. 

Fiftieth Session. — 1827. — John Fisher, Nathaniel Montross 
and Joseph Scofield. 

Fifty-first Session. — 1828. — John Fisher, Nathaniel Montross 
and James Turk. 



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Fifty-second Session. — 1829. — Aaron Brown, Lawrence Da- 
venport and Abel Smith. 

Fifty-third Session. — 1830. — Aaron Brown, Lawrence Daven- 
port and Abel Smith. 

Fifty-fourth Session.— 1831.— St. John Constant, Thomas 
Murphy, and Aaron Yark. 

Fifty-fifth Session.— 1832.— John W. Frost, Thomas Smith 
and Israel H. Watson. 

Fifty-sixth Session. — 1833. — Joseph H. Anderson, Horatio 
Lockwood and Israel H. Watson. 

Fifty-seventh Session. — 1834. — Joseph H. Anderson, Edwin 
Crosby and Horatio Lockwood. 

Fifty-eighth Session. — 1835. — Edwin Crosby, Horatio Lock- 
wood and Prince W. Paddock. 

Fifty-ninth Session. — 1836. — William Fisher, Horatio Lock- 
wood and Prince W. Paddock. 

Sixtieth Session. — 1837. — William Fisher and Barnardus 
Montross. 

Sixty-first Session. — 1838. — Francis Barretto and Nicholas 
Cruger. 

Sixty-second Session. — 1839. — Samuel B. Ferris and Joseph 
Strang. 

Sixty-third Session. — 1840. — Samuel B. Ferris and Joseph 
Strang. 

Sixty-fourth Session. — 1841. — Joseph T. Carpenter and Hor- 
atio Lockwood. 

Sixty-fifth Session. — 1842. — Joseph T. Carpenter and Horatio 
Lockwood. 

Sixty-sixth Session. — 1843. — Andrew Findlay and Samuel L. 
Holmes. 

Sixty-seventh Session. — 1844. — Andrew Findlay and Charles 
Wright. 

Sixty-eighth Session. — 1845. — I. Anthony Constant and Thom- 
as R. Lee. 

Sixty-ninth Session. — John R. Hayward and Ezra Marshall. 

Seventieth Session. — 1847. — James E. Beers and Ezra Mar- 
shall. 

Seventy-first Session. — 1848. — Richard M. Underhill and 
Jared V. Peck. 

Seventy-second Session.— 1849. — William H. Robertson and 
Harvey Kidd. 

Seventy-third Session. — 1850. — William H. Robertson and 
Jesse Lyon. 

Seventy-fourth Session. — 1851. — Daniel Clark Briggs and 
Tlicodore H. Benedict. 



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■ Seventy-fifth Session, — 1852. — George W. Lyon and Abraham 
Hatfield. 

Seventy-sixth Session. — 1853. — George C. Finch and Jacob 
Odell. 

Seventy-seventh Session. — 1854. — Elijah Lee and Jacob Odell. 

Seventy-eighth Session. — 1855. — Daniel Hunt and Frederick 
W. Waterbury. 

Seventy-ninth Session. — 1856. — Abraham R. Strang and Eli 
Curtis. 

Eightieth Session. — 1857. — Arnell F. Dickinson and Edmund 
G. Sutherland. 

Eighty-first Session. — 1858. — Abraham B. Tappen, Edmund 
G. Sutherland and Frost Horton. 

Eighty-second Session. — 1859. — Augustus Van Cortlandt, 
James S. See and Gaylord B. Hubbell. 

Eighty-third Session.— 1860.— William T. B. Milliken, N. 
Holmes Odell and Gaylord B. Hubbell. 

Eighty-fourth Session. — 1861. — Wm. J. McDermott, N. 
Holmes Odell and Benj. F. Camp. 

Eighty-fifth Session.— 1862.— Pierre C. Talman, Newberry D. 
Halstead and Chauncey M. Depew. 

Eighty-sixth Session. — 1863.— Pierre C. Talman, John E. 
Marshall and Chauncey M. Depew. 

Eighty-seventh Session. — 1864. — Franklin W. Gilley, Alsop 
H. Lockwood and George A. Brandreth. 

Eighty-eighth Session. — 1865. — Pierre C. Talman, Alsop H. 
Lockwood and George A. Brandreth. 

Eighty-ninth Session. — 1866. — Orrin A. Bills, Lawrence D. 
Himtington and George A. Brandreth. 

Ninetieth Session. — 1867. — Samuel M. Purdy, George J. Pen- 
field and David W. Travis. 

Ninety-first Session. — 1868. — Samuel M. Purdy, George J. 
Penfield and Henry C. Nelson. 

Ninety-second Session. — 1869. — Claiborne Ferris, Edward D. 
Lawrence and James W. Husted. 

Ninety-third Session. — 1870. — James J. Mooney, Edward D. 
Lawrence and James W. Husted. 

Ninety-fourth Session.— 1871.— G. Hilton Scribner, Alfred W. 
Bartlett and James W. Husted. 

Ninety-fifth Session.— 1872.— William W. Niles, Albert Ba- 
deau and James W. Husted. 

Ninety-sixth Session. — 1873. — William Herring, Amherst 
Wight, Jr., and James W. Husted. 

Ninety-seventh Session. — 1874. — William Cauldwell, Am- 
herst Wight, Jr., and James W. Husted. 



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Ninety-eighth Session. — 1875. — Dennis R. Shiel, Charles M. 
Schieffelin and James W. Husted. 

Ninety-ninth Session. — 1876. — George H. Forster, Charles M. 
Schieffelin and James W. Husted. 

One Hundredth Session. — 1877. — Ambrose H. Purdy, William 
F. Moller and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and first Session. — 1878. — Ambrose H. Purdy, 
William F. Moller and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and second Session.^^1879. — James Lee Wells, 
David Ogden Bradley and David W. Travis. 

One Hundred and third vSession. — 1880. — David Ogden Brad- 
ley, William H. Catlin and David W. Travis. 

One Hundred and fourth Session. — 1881. — William F. Moller, 
William H. Catlin and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and fifth Session.— 1882.— Edwin R. Keyes, 
William H. Catlin and George W. Robertson. 

One Hundred and sixth Session. — 1883. — Edwin R. Keyes, 
Samuel W. Johnson and John Hoag. 

One Hundred and seventh Session. — 1884. — Norton P. Otis, 
Samuel W. Johnson and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and eighth Session. — 1885. — Charles P. McClel- 
land, Samuel W. Johnson and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and ninth Session. — 1886. — Charles P. McClel- 
land, Norman A. Lawlor and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and tenth Session. — 1887. — J. Irving Burns, 
Samuel Conover and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and eleventh Session. — 1888. — J. Irving Burns, 
Bradford Rhodes and elames W. Husted. 

One Hundred and twelfth Session. — 1889. — William Murray, 
Bradford Rhodes and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and thirteenth Session. — 1890. — J. Irving 
Burns, Bradford Rhodes and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and Fourteenth Session. — 1891. — Charles P. 
McClelland, William Ryan and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and fifteenth Session. — 1892. — Thomas K. 
Eraser, William Ryan and James W. Husted. 

One Hundred and sixteenth Session. — 1893. — Thomas K. 
Eraser, Alfred H. Morris and Edgar L. Ryder. 

One Hundred and seventeenth Session. — 1894. — John C. Har- 
rigan, John Berry and Edgar L. Ryder. 

One Hundred and eighteenth Session. — 1895. — J. Irving 
Burns, John N. Stewart and James W. Husted, Jr. 

One Hundred and nineteenth Session. — 1896. — John N. Stew- 
art, George L. Carlisle and James W. Husted, Jr. 

One Hundred and twentieth Session. — 1897. — Alfred E. 



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Smith, Richard E. Emmet, Jr., and James W. Husted, Jr. Mr. 
Emmet died February 9, 1897; no election was held to fill va- 
cancy. 

One Hundred and twenty-first Session.— 1898.— Jared Sand- 
ford, William J. Graney and John Gibney. 



52 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



^Supervisors of the Several Towns. 



The first meeting of the Board of Supervisors, of which there 
is record, was held on Tuesday, October 6, 1772, at the school 
house, in Rye. Present, Justice Davis for Philipsborough, 
William Sutton for Mamaroneck, Ebenezer Lockwood for 
Poundridge, James Holmes for Bedford, Stephen Ward for 
Eastchester, Abijah Gilbert for Salem, Richard Willis for New 
Rochelle, William Barker for Scarsdale, Dr. David Daton for 
North Castle, and Dr. Robert Graham for White Plains. An ad- 
journment was taken to meet in the Court House at White 
Plains. In same month the second session was held, at White 
Plains; same members were present with the addition of Col. 
James Van Cortlandt for Yonkers, Major Pierre Van Cort- 
landt for Manor of Cortlandt and Judge John Thomas of Rye. 
At this meeting the members qualified, and White Plains was 
decided upon as the regular place of meeting for the Board of 
Supervisors. Dr. Robert Graham of White Plains, was elected 
Clerk of the Board and Treasurer of the County. 

Meetings of the Board were held in early days at the resi- 
dences of prominent citizens at Rye, Bedford and White Plains; 
later, meetings took place in the ofQce of the County Clerk, 
and the Boards continued to convene annually in latter place 
until accommodations proved too cramped, then the present 
Supervisors' room was erected as an addition to the Court 
House. 

An act of the Legislature, passed February 6, 1773, requires 
the County Board of Supervisors to hold its meetings in the 
Court House at White Plains. 

It is understood that in the early period the Judges of the 
Court of Common Pleas met with the Supervisors and assisted 
in the transaction of the county's business. One of the Judges 
acted as Chairman, and one of the Supervisors was elected 
Clerk as well as County Treasurer. In former times town 
oflScers were seldom changed, and Supervisors were returned 
from the several towns to the Board year after year. It was 
then considered that Supervisors, like wine, improved with 
age, and that the wisdom gained by long experience might 
prove of benefit to a Supervisor's constituents. 

The Board of Supervisors rarely changed its Clerk in those 
times, and the incumbent was permitted to continue in office 
until he was, of his own accord, ready to retire. 

By an act of the Legislature passed January 18, 1830, the 
annual meeting of the Board of Supervisors in the County of 
Westchester is to commence on the first Monday after the 



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annual election in each and every year. Supervisors receive 
as compensation |4 per day, while attending meetings of the 
Board, beside usual mileage. 

Following are the names of Supervisors representing their 
respective towns and the years in which they served as such 
in the County Board; also names of Chairmen and Clerks 
elected, from time to time, by the several Boards of Supervisors: 



BEDFORD. 



James Holmes, 1772 to 1778. 
Israel Lyon, 1778 to 1782. 
Zebediah Mills, 1782-86-87. 
Peter Fleming, 1782 to 1794. 
Ellas Newman, 1794-95. 
William Miller, 1796. 
James McDonald, 1797-98-99, 

1800. 
John Woolsey, Jr., 1801-02. 
David Olmstead, 1803 to 1808. 
David Miller, 1808 to 1833. 
Henry Robertson, 1833 to 

1838, 1840 to 1845. 
Phineas Lounsberry, 1838. 
Peter K. Buxton, 1839, 1846. 
James W. Husted, 1847-48. 

A. F. Dickinson, 1849-50. 
J. A. Lyon, 1851. 

William H. Robertson, 1852- 
53, 1870-71. 

B. I. Ambler, 1854-62. 
Hezekiah D. Robertson, 1855, 

1858-59-60-61-65- to 1870. 
T. Clark, 1856. 
J. E. Horton, 1857. 
James Wood, 1863-64. 
L. F. Pelton, 1872. 
Moses W. Fish, 1873 to 1879. 
Joseph Barrett, 1879 to 1885. 
Timothy C. Adams, 1885-86-87. 
James E. Hoyt, 1888. 
Lonis K. Bell, 1889-90. 
John Knox, 1891. 
T. Ellwood Carpenter, 1892- 

93-94. 
Isaac W. Turner, 1896-97. 



CORTLANDT. 



Pierre Van Cortlandt, 1772 to 

1780. 
Samuel Haight, 1780-82. 
Joseph Strang, 1783 to 1787. 



Philip Van Cortlandt, 1788 to 
1790, 1816, 1818. 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., 1790 
to 1803, 1804 to 1812. 

Joel Frost, 1803. 

John Jones, 1812 to 1816. 

Jonathan Ferris, 1817. 

James Wilie, 1819-20. 

Daniel W. Burtsell, 1821-22. 

John W. Frost, 1823 to 1827; 
1828 to 1832. 

Ward B. Howard, 1827, 1853. 

Joseph W. Strang, 1832. 

St. John Constant, 1833. 

N. Cruger, 1834-35-37-39-40-42. 

Daniel Carpenter, 1836. 

Henry W. Depew, 1841. 

William Boyce, 1843-44. 

Gilbert B. Hart, 1845. 

James B. Travis, 1846-47. 

Isaac Seymour, 1848. 

Mead Barmore, 1849. 

Thomas A. Whitney, 1850. 

William Bleakley, Jr., 1851. 

Erne Orne, 1852. 

Caleb L. Ferris, 1854. 

Frost Horton, 1855-58-60. 

Owen T. Coffin, 1859. 

Coffin S. Brown, 1861 to 1865; 
1868-69; 1871 to 1878; 1883 
to 1885, died in office, July 
2, 1885; William A. Hunt 
was appointed to fill va- 
cancy. 

Uriah Hill, Jr., 1865-66-67. 

W. H. Anderson, 1870. 

D. W. Travis, 1878-79. 

William Mabie, 1880-81-82-86. 

Cyrus Travis, 1884. 

Mathew Clune, 1887. 

George W. Robertson, 1888. 

William R. Thorne, 1889 to 
1894. 

James H. Haight, 1894-95-98. 

Franklin Couch, 1896-97. 



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EASTCHESTER. 



John Pinkney, 1690-91-92-93- 

94-96. 
John Lancaster, 1695-98-99. 

1712. 
John Drake, 1697, 1702-3-4-5- 

7, 1715 to 1722. 
Jeremiah Fowler, 1700. 
Henry Fowler, 1710-11. 
William Chatterton, 1701. 
Thomas Pinkney, 1706-12-13- 

14. 
Edmund Ward, 1708-9. 
Moses Fowler, 1722-28-29, 1831 

to 1839. 
Joseph Drake, 1723-24-25-26- 

27-43. 
Palmer Doughty, 1730. 
Benjamin Drake, 1739-40. 
John Fowler, 1742-44-45-46- 

47-48-51-52-54-55. 
John Ward, 1741-49-50. 
Samuel Sneden, 1753, 1760 to 

1772. 
John Townsend, 1756-57, 1810 

to 1823. 
Ebenezer Burling, 1758, 1783- 

84-89. 
Jonathan Fowler, 1759. 
Stephen Ward, 1772 to 1783, 

1787 to 1793, 1826-27-28. 
James Hunt, 1785. 
Thomas Hunt, 1786. 
John G. Wright, 1793. 
Benjamin Morgan, 1794 to 

1803, 1804 to 1810. 
Richard Ward, 1803. 
James Somerville, 1823-24-25. 
Nathaniel Devoe, 1829-30-33- 

35. 
Joshua Hunt, 1831-32-34. 
Jospeh Lyon, 1836-37. 
John R. Hayward, 1838-39-40. 
Jesse Lyon, 1841-42. 
Abijah Morgan, 1843-44-46. 
William Bertine, 1845. 
John W. Burtis, 1847-48. 
Lancaster Underhill, 1849-50. 
Crandall Rich, 1851-52. 
George Archer, 1853. 
Abijah G. Morgan, 1854. 
Darius Lyon, 1855 to 1860. 
Pelham L. McClellan, 1860-61- 
62. 



I Edward Martin, 1863, 1871. 

Stephen Bogart, 1864-65. 
! J. M. Masterson, 1866-67-70. 

i E. D. Lawrence, 1868-69. 

W. P. Esterbrook, 1872. 
Elias Dusenberry, 1873, died 
December 29, 1873, and was 
succeeded by W. H. Pem- 
berton. 
William H. Pemberton, 1874 

to 1877. 
David Cromwell, 1877-78. 
David Quackinbush, 1879-80- 

82 to 1888, 1889. 
Henry Huss, 1881. 
Daniel C. Hickey, 1888. 
John Berry, 1890. 
John Thurton, 1891. 
Herbert D. Lenit, 1892, now in 
office. 
By an act of the Legislature, 
passed in 1892, Mount Vernon, a 
portion of this town, was made a 
city and a separate town. By an 
act of the Legislature passed June 
6, 1895, a portion of the town was 
annexed to the City of New York. 

GREENBURGH. 

George Comb, 1794 to 1801. 
Abraham Odell, 1801 to^ 1820. 
Caleb Wildey, 1820-21. 
William N. Dynckman, 1822. 
Gilbert Underbill, 1823-24-25. 
Steuben Swartout, 1826. 
Jonathan S. Odell, 1827-28. 
Isaac Hunt, 1829. 
Daniel Ackerman, 1830 to 

1835, 1837-38. 
Caleb Martine. 1835-36. 
J. Acker, 1839 to 1844. 

B. Ferris, 1844. 

G. Seeley, 1845-46. 
P. Wildey, 1847 to 1850. 
Jacob Odell, 1850 to 1853. 
D. H. Little, 1853-54. 
Seth Bird, 1855-56. 

C. W. Little, 1857 to 1861. 
Shadrach Taylor, 1861-62-63. 
Abram 0. Willsea, 1864 to 

1881. 
Telbrook W. Crisfield, 1881 to 

1886. 
John Besson, 1886 to 1892. 



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55 



Frank V. Millard, 1892. 
Charles G. Storms, 1893. 
Bertrand F. Tompkins, 1894 

to. 1898. 
Alexander McClelland, 1898. 



HARRISON. 



Isaiah Maynard, 1783. 
William Miller, 1784 to 1791. 
Joseph Carpenter, 1791-2. 
William Vail, 1793 to 1801, 

1802 to 1805. 
Thomas Carpenter, 1801. 
Thomas Halstead, 1805 to 

1808, 1810 to 1828. 
Simeon Tyler, 1808-9. 
Jeremiah Anderson, 1828 to 

1836, (was re-elected in 1836, 

but declined to serve). 
William M. Cromwell, 1836. 
William H. Purdy, 1837 to 

1840. 
Joseph H. Anderson, 1840. 
Thomas C. Field, 1841 to 1847. 
James D. Merritt, 1847-48-49. 
David P. Halstead, 1850-51. 
John Palmer, 1852. 
Daniel W. Gray, 1853 to 1857, 

1863, 1875, 1883, 
Edward Willets, 1857-58-59, 

1864 to 1874, 1876-77. 
Samuel Hopper, 1859-60-61-62. 
G. T. Burling, 1878 to 1883, 

1884-85-86. 
Charles C. Haviland, 1887 to 

1896. 
George T. Gray, 1896 to 1898. 



LEWISBORO. 

SALEM. 



Abijah Gilbert, 1772 to 1807. 

Joel Bouton, 1807. 

SOUTH SALEM, (formerly 

Salem). 
Joel Bouten, 1808. 
Stephen Gilbert, 1809-11-12- 

15-17-18. 
Solomon Meade, 1810, 1819 to 

1823, 1825 to 1830, 1833-34-35. 
Nathan Howe, 1813-14. 
Martin Meade, 1816, 1823-24. 
Joel Lawrence, 1824 to 1827. 
Jeremiah Howe, 1830-31-32, 

1836 to 1840. 



LEWISBORO (changed from 
South Salem, Feb. 13, 1840). 
Cyrus Lawrence, 1840. 
Daniel Hunt, 1841 to 1874. 
John C. Holmes, 1874 to 1892. 
Jameis A. Breakell, 1892. 
James F. Lawrence, 1893 to 
date. 

MAMARONECK. 

Samuel Palmer, 1697, 1710-lL 
James Mott, 1698-99-1702. 
Henry Disbrow, 1707-8. 
Nehemiah Palmer. 1712-14-42- 

44. 
Sylvanus Palmer, 1715-16-21- 

22-24-27 to 1742. (Died in 

office). 
Josiah Quinby, 1717. 
John Griffen, 1718. 
Henry Fowler, 1719-20-23-25- 

26. 
Underbill Budd, 1743-45-47. 
John Stephenson, 1748, 1758. 
John Townsend, part of 1758, 

1761 to 1770. 
Reuben Bloomer, 1759-60, 

1776. 
William Sutton, 1771 to 1775. 
Gilbert Budd, 1783 to 1793. 
Benjamin Griffen, 1794 to 

1797. 
John P. DeLancey, 1798 to 

1800, 1814. 
Edward Merritt, 1801-2. 
Aaron Palmer, 1803 to 1806, 

1816, 1825 to 1827. 
John Pinkney, 1807 to 1813, 

1817 to 1819. 
Monmouth Lyon, 1815, 1833- 

34. 
John B. Underbill, 1820 to 

1824. 
John Morrell, 1828, 1855 to 

1859. 
Edwin Post, 1829. 
Henry Munro, 1830. 
James H. Guion, 1831-32, 1835 

to 1842, 1850. 
Benjamin M. Brown, 1843 to 

1846, 1847-48-49. 
Stephen C. Griffen, 1846. 
Charles W. Hopkins, 1851. 
Louis Walsh, 1852-54-61-65- 



56 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Zachariah Voorhis, 1853. 
William I. Barker, 1859-60. 
Jonas D. Hill, 1862-63-64. 
Jacob B. Humphrey, 1867. 
Schureman Halsted, 1868. 
Thomas L. Rushmore, 1869- 

70. 
James J. Burnet, 1871. 
Charles H. Birney, 1872 to 

1876. 
Matthias Banta, 1S77 to 1891, 

1892. 
Jacoh Mayer, 1891. 
Charles M. Baxter, 1893 to 

1899. 



MORRISANIA. 

(Organized December 7, 1855.) 
G. Morris, 1856. 
William Cauldwell, 1857 to 
1870, 1871, 1873 and last Su- 
pervisor of the town. 
Silas D. Gifford, 1870. 
J. Hopkins, 1872. 
This town was annexed to New 
York City, by an act of the Leg- 
islature, passed May 23, 1873. 

MOUNT PLEASANT. 

William Adams, 1794-95-96-97. 
Marmaduke Foster, 1798-99, 

1800-1. 
Thomas Ward, 1802-3-4, 1806 

to 1812. 
Samuel Youngs, 1805. 
James Ross, 1812. 
Daniel Delevan, 1813-14. 
William Requa, 1815. 
Stephen D. Powell, 1816 to 

1820. 
Isaac Oakley, 1820 to 1829, 

1833-34. 
Henry Romer, 1829-30-31-32- 

36, 1842-43, 1848-49. 
James C. Hall, 1835. 
Jesse Ryder, 1837-38. 
I. Birdsall, 1839-40. 
Seth Weeks, 1841. 
J. F. Yerks, 1844. 
I. Coutant, 1845-46. 
A. Brouwer, 1847. 
J. S. See, 1850. 
E. Hatfield, 1851-52. 
N. U. Tompkins, 1853, 1855. 



E. M. Davis, 1854. 

H. E. Paulding, 1856. 

J. A. Husted, 1857. 

I. R. Mead, 1858. 

Isaac M. Twitchings, 1859 to 

1867. 
N. W. Husted, 1867. 
J. Leggett, 1868 to 1873. 
Amos R. Clark, 1873-74. 
J. S. See, 1875. 
Moses W. Taylor, 1876 to 1894, 

1898. 
Charles M. Lane, 1894 to 1898. 

MOUNT VERNON. 

John Thurton, 1892. 
Dennis Beach, 1893-94. 
George H. Brown, 1895. 
First Ward— Melville Kelsey, 

1896. 

Harry J. Robinson, 1896-7. 
Second Ward— Daniel Lewis, 

1896-97. 
Third Ward— Charles C. Bige- 

low, 1896-7. 
Fourth Ward — George H. 

Brown, 1896. 

Albert S. Jenks, 1897-98. 
Fifth Ward — Edgar K.Brown, 

1896-7. 

NEW CASTLE. 

Stephen Carpenter, 1794 to 

1800. 
Jesse Brady, 1800-1. 
Nathan Merritt, 1802. 
Caleb Kirby, 1803 to 1821. 
James Fish, 1821 to 1826. 
Joshua W. Bowron, 1826-27. 
Gilbert Brundage, 1828 to 

1835, 1838, 1840 to 1843. 
Joseph W. Merritt, 1835. 
David Sands, 1836-37. 
W. Kipp, 1839, 1850. 

D. Hoag, 1843. 

Zopher Carpenter, 1844-45, 
1853. 

E. B. Merritt, 1846. 

E. B. Lane, 1847-1861-62. 

H. Allen, 1848. 

T. W. Smith, 1849, 1851-52. 

J. T. Carpenter, 1854. 

J. Y. Haight, 1855 to 1859. 

Daniel Hallock, 1859-60. 

Francis M. Carpenter, 1863 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



57 



to 1869, 1871 to 1896. 
W. H. Haight, 1869-70. 
Israel A. Haigrt, 1896 to 1898. 

NEW ROCHELLE. 

Robert Bloomer, 1699 to 1702. 

Esais Vallou, 1702-3. 

Oliver Besley, 1704 to 1712, 

1724 to 1728. 
Anthony Lesplnars, 1712 to 

1722, 1723, 1728 to 1731. 
Gillaume LeCompte, 1731 to 

1738. 
Joseph Rodman, 1738 to 1744, 

1745 to 1760. 
John Pell, 1744. 
Ezekiel Halsted, 1746-47. 
Jacohus Blaiker, 1760 to 1764. 
Richard Willis, 1764 to 1774. 
Joseph Drake, 1774 to 1783; 

from 1776 to 1783, time of 

the Revolutionary War, 

there were no elections held 

in the town. 
Benjamin Stephenson, 1783 

to 1786, 1788-89. 
Abraham Guion, 1786. 
Theodosius Bartow, 1787. 
James Willis, 1790 to 1798. 
Frederick Guion, 1798. 
Elijah Ward, 1799 to 1810. 
Elias Guion, Jr., 1810. 
Richard Ward, 1811 to 1816. 
Lawrence Davenport, 1816 to 

1821, 1829 to 1843. 
John P. Huntington, 1821 to 

1829. 
States Barton, 1843-44, 1849, 

1854. 
Albert Badeau, 1845-46, 1861- 

62. 
Nicholas Miller, 1847. 
John Soulice, 1848. 
Robert H. Coles, 1850 to 1854. 
Peter J. Sherwood, 1855. 
Thaddeus Davids, 1856 to 

1863. 
Lawrence D. Huntington, 

1863-64. 
George J. Penfield, 1865-66. 
Benjamin Badeau, 1867, 1883. 
George W. Davis, 1868 to 

1875. 
George W. Ackerman, 1875 to 

1879. 



Henry D. Phelps, 1879 to 1883. 

1886, 1897. 
Charles H. Roosevelt, 1884-85, 

1887-88. 
Gideon W. Davenport,, 1889, 

1894-95-96, (died in office.) 
William V. Molloy, 1890-91-92. 
Jacob Hollwegs, 1893. 

NORTH CASTLE. 

George Dennis, 1736 to 1738, 

1742 to 1749, 1754 to 1756. 
Jonathan Ogden, 1738. 
Adam Seaman, 1739 to 1742. 
Benjamin Smith, 1749 to 

1754. 
Caleb Fowler, 1756, 1758 to 

1771. 
Aaron Forman, 1757. 
Dr. David Dayton, 1771 to 

1777. 
Jonathan Piatt, 1777. 
Jacob Purdy, 1778 to 1781. 
Andrew Sniffin, 1781 to 1784. 
Abel Smith, 1784 to 1801, 1806. 
Isaac Webbers, 1801 to 1806. 
Peter Lyon, 1807-8. 
John Palmer, 1809-10. 
John Ferris, 1811 to 1820. 
James Hopkins, 1820 to 1833. 
Rees Carpenter, 1833 to 1836, 

1838. 
Grey B. Hobby, 1836 to 1838, 

1845. 
William Williams, 1839. 
Abraham Miller, 1840. 
Nathan I. Green, 1841-42, 

1847-48, 1852. 
Israel Townsend, 1843. 
Job Sands, 1844, 1846. 
Samuel B. Ferris, 1849 to 

1852. 
Joseph S. Hobby, 1853-54. 
Benjamin Tripp, 1855. 
Charles Purdy, 1856 to 1860. 
Leman B. Tripp, 1860-61. 
William S. Brown, 1862. 
Evander Odell, 1863-64. 
David W. Smith, 1865-66, 

1871. 
James Hopkins, 1867 to 1871, 

1872 to 1875, 1876 to 1880, 

1881. 
Horace P. Flewellin, 1875. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Aaron F, Read, 1880. 
Edwin R. Hopkins, 1882-83. 
Joseph B. See, 1884 to date. 

NORTH SALEM. 

UPPER SALEM. 
Abijah Gilbert, 1772 to 1784. 
Thaddeus Crane, 1784-85. 
Hachaliah Brown, 1786-87. 
Ebenezer Purdy, 1788 to 1790. 
NORTH SALEM, (formerly 

Upper Salem). 
John Quick, 1790 to 1793, 1801 

to 1804. 
Daniel Delevan, 1793 to 1799. 
Ebenezer Purdy, 1799 to 1801. 
Epenetus Wallace, 1804-13-14- 

15-16. 
Zabud June, 1805 to 1811, 1830. 
Charles Ambler, 1811-12. 
Ebenezer Purdy, Jr., 1817 to 

1823. 
Isaac Purdy, 1823, 1829. 
Jesse Smith, 1824 to 1829. 
Samuel Field, 1831 to 1834. 
Epenetus Howe, 1834, 1836, 

1840-41, 1844-45. 
James Mills, 1835. 
John J. June, 1837. 
Nehemiah Wilson, 1838-39, 

1842 to 1844. 
Isaac H. Purdy, 1846 to 1850, 

1856-57. 
George C. Finch, 1850 to 1856. 
Joseph L. Sutton, 1858, 1860 

to 1868. 
Gilbert P. Baily, 1859. 
Odle Close, 1868 to 1893. 
Henry W. Norton, 1893-94-95. 
Isaac Purdy, 1896-97-98-99. 

OSSINING. 

(Organized May 2, 1845.) 
Joseph Hunt, 1845-46. 
Stephen Marshall, 1847-48. 
G. Van Wyck, 1849, 1852. 
Abraharn Hyatt, 1850. 
Frank Larkin, 1851. 
J. T. Yoe, 1853. 
J. Holly Piatt, 1854. 
W. O. Mills, 1855. 
J. F. Purdy, 1856. 
George A. Brandreth, 1857-58- 
59. 



Nelson H. Baker, 1860. 
Abraham B. Reynolds, 1861- 
62-63-1883. 

F. C. Burrhus, 1864. 

W. E. Lawrence, 1865 to 1870, 
Thomas Leary, 1870-71. 

G. B. Hubbell, 1872. 

John Hoag, 1873-74-78-79-80- 

81. 
R. M. Lawrence, 1875-76-77. 
Joshua G. Many, 1882, 1884. 
John J. Mahaney, 1885. 
Gilbert M. Todd, 1886 to date. 



PELHAM. 

James Pell, 1773 to 1784. 
Philip Pell, 1784 to 1825. 
John Hunter, 1825-26. 
Stephen S. Pell, 1827 to 1831, 

1841. 
George Horton, 1831-32-33. ' 
Nathaniel P. Ogden, 1834-35- 

36. 
Elias D. Hunter, 1837 to 1840, 

1846-47. 
Joseph Lyon, 1840. 
James Hay, 1842, 1844-45. 
J. L. Townsend, 1843. 
P. Schuyler, 1848 to 1851. 
G. W. Horton, 1851 to 1859. 
Samuel Lippincott, 1859-60-61. 
Benjamin Hegemau, 1862, 

to 1873. 
James Hyatt, 1873 tO' 1885. 
Robert H. Scott, 1885. 
Sherman, T. Pell, 1886 to 1893. 
William McAllister, 1893-94. 
John M. Shinn, 1895 to 1899. 

A portion of this town was an- 
nexed to New York City by an act 
of the Legislature passed June 6th, 
1895. 

POUNDRIDGE. 

Ebenezer Lockwood, 1772 to 

1779, 1782 to 1787, 1802 to 

1807. 
William Fancher, 1780-81, 

1788 to 1802. 
Ezra Lockwood, 1807 to 1820. 
Horatio Lockwood, 1820 to 

1824, 1826 to 1841. 
John C. Ferris, 1824-25. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



William Lockwood, 1841 to 

1844. 
R. Ayres, 1844. 
Alsop H. Lockwood, 1845 to 

1853, 1856 to 1868. 
H. D. Robertson, 1853. 
William L. Smith, 1854-55. 
David W. Miller, 1868 to 

1872. 
Stephen Taylor, 1872. 
Daniel B. Rockwell, 1873. 
Miles Adams, 1874 to 1878, 

1883 to 1892. 
D. W. Chichester, 1878 to 1883. 
George N. Fancher, 1892. 
George I. Ruscoe, 1893 to date. 



RYE. 



Joseph Theall, 1691 to 1701. 
Deliverance Brown, 1701 to 

1703. 
John Frost, 1703 to 1705. 
Thomas Merritt, 1705-6. 
Joseph Purdy, 1707 to 1711. 
John Hoyt, 1711 to 1713, 1717 

to 1720. 
Joseph Bedd, 1713 to 1717, 

1720-1-2. 
Samuel Purdy, 1723 to 1740, 

1744-5-6, 1749. 
John Thomas, 1740 to 1744, 

1765-66-67, 1783-84. 
Samuel Tredwell, 1747-48. 
William Willett, 1750 to 1762. 
Jonathan Brown, 1762-63. 
Timothy Wetmore, 1764, 1768. 
John Thomas, Jr., 1769-70. 
Ebenezer Haviland, 1771 to 

1783. 
Jesse Hunt, 1783 to 1788. 
Gilbert Brundage, 1788. 
Thomas Bowne, 1789 to 1796. 
Bartholomey Haden, 1796. 
John Guyon, 1797-98, 1801 to 

1805. 
John Brown, 1799. 
Thomas Brown, 1800. 
Samuel Marvin, 1805-6. 
Samuel Armor, 1807-8. 
Samuel Deall, 1809 to 1823. 
David Kirby, 1823 to 1835, 

1838. 
John Theall, 1835 to 1838, 

1841. 



Willett Moseman, 1839-40. 
James D. Halsted, 1842 to 

1846, 1862-63-64. 
J. C. R. Brown, 1846-47. 
Dr. D. J. Sands, 1848. 
John S Provost, 1849, 1854, 
William Horton, 1850. 
Newberry D. Halstead, 1851 to 

1854. 
John B. Marshall, 1855 to 

1861. 
John W. Lounsbury, 1861. 
Wilson D. Slawson, 1865. 
Thomas K. Downing, 1866-67- 

68. 
Howard C. Cady, 1869-70. 
Amherst J. Wigkt, Jr., 1871- 

72. 
George W. Wesley, 1873. 
S. W. Johnson, 1874 to 1883. 
William Ryan, 1883 to 1888. 
George W. Carpenter, 1888 to 

1892. 
Addison Johnson, 1892 to 1895. 
Clarence Sackett, 1895 to 1898. 



SCARSDALE. 



William Barker, 1772 to 1783. 
Jonathan G. Tompkins, 1783 

to 1794. 
John Barker, 1794 to 1798. 
Caleb Tompkins, 1798 to 1808. 

1822. 
James Secor, 1808 to 1812. 
Enoch Tompkins, 1812 to 1822. 
Richard M. Popham, 1823 to 

1829. 
Nathaniel Brown, 1829-30. 
Richard Palmer, 1831 to 1838, 

1839 to 1845. 
George D. Varian, 1838. 
W. Cornell, 1845-46, 1852, 

1862. 
J. G. Tompkins, 1847-48. 
Francis Secor, 1849, 1851, 

1853 to 1862, 1863 to 1867, 

1868 to 1879. 
J. Willets, 1850. 
G. P. Nelson, 1867. 
Oliver A. Hyatt, 1879-80. 
George J. Willets, 1881-82. 
Chauncey T. Secor, 1883 to 

date. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



SOMERS. 



STEPHENTOWN. 

Hachaliah Brown, 1788 to 

1791. 
Abraham Brown, 1791 to 1807. 
Joseph Owen, Jr., 1807. 
SOMERS, (formerly Stephen- 
town). 
Joseph Owen, Jr., 1808-9, 1811, 

to 1815, 1817. 
Abraham Brown, 1810. 
Stephen Green, 1815-16. 
Stephen Brown, Jr., 1818 to 

1833. 
Gerad Crane, 1833 to 1837. 
William Marshall, 1837 to 

1841. 
Israel Green, 1841 to 1844, 

1845, 1853. 
I. Brown, 1844. 
S. Gregory, 1846-47, 1851-52, 

1857. 
Jesse Horton, 1848. 
W. E. Teed, 1849, 1862 to 

1868, 1870-71. 
Joseph Griffin, 1850. 
William Marshall, Jr., 1854- 

55, 1858 to 1862, 1869. 
Joseph Reynolds, 1856. 
James W. Bedell, 1868. 
Stephen Brown, 1872. 
Jesse G. Carpenter, 187-74. 
Thaddeus Crane, 1875 to 1880. 
James P. Teed, 1880 to date. 



WESTCHESTER. 

James Ferris, 1773 to 1784. 
Thomas Hunt, 1784. 
Abraham Leggett, 1785. 
Lake Hunt, 1786. 
Israel Underbill, 1787 to 1892. 
Benjamin Ferris, 1802 to 

1816, 1819 to 1829. 
Bazil J. Bartow, 1816 to 1819. 
Israel H. Watson, 1829 to 

1833, 1835 to 1839. 
Augustace Huestace, 1833-34. 
Andrew Findlay, 1839 to 1844, 

1845-46. 
Robert R. Morris, 1844, 1849, 

1851-52. 
Daniel J. Costar, 1847-48. 
Bayard Clark, 1850. 



Abraham Hatfield, 1853 to 

1858, 1859 to 1862, 1864 to 

1870. 
Denton Pearsall, 1858. 
William H. Bowne, 1862-63, 

1876. 
P. Hendrick, 1870-71. 
Hugh Lunny, 1872-73, 1877. 
F. C. Havemeyer, 1874. 
J. M. Furman, 1875. 
R. C. Watson, 1878. 
James Henderson, Jr., 1879 to 

1882, 1883. 
Peter Briggs, 1882. 
Daniel McGrory, 1884 to 1887. 
Michael Ranch, 1887 to 1892. 
A. Hennen Morris, 1892-93. 
Aug. M. Field, 1894 and last 

Supervisor. 

This town was annexed to New 
York City, by an act of the Legis- 
lature passed June 6, 1895. 



WEST FARMS. 

(Organized May 13, 1846.) 

F. Barnette, 1847. 

A. Findlay, 1848-49. 

John B. Haskin, 1850-51, 1863. 

Charles Bathgate, 1852-60, 

1871-72. 
W. N. Lewis, 1853. 
H. B. Todd, 1854. 
Samuel M. Purdy, 1855-56-61- 

64-65-66-67. 
Abraham B. Tappen, 1857. 
George W. Devoe, 1862. 
Frederick Grote, 1868-69-70. 
John Bussing, 1858-59, 1873 

and last Supervisor. 

This town was annexed to New 
York City, by an act of the Leg- 
islature, passed May 23, 1873. 



WHITE PLAINS. 

Caleb Hyatt, 1727 to 1735. 
Moses Owen, 1735-36. 
Jonathan Purdy, 1737 to 1750. 
Elisha Budd, 1750-51-52-56-57. 
Elisha Hyatt, 1753-4-5. 
Abraham Hatfield, 1758 to 
1769. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Dr. Robert Graham 1769 to 

1775. 
Samuel Purdy, 1775-6. 
Anthony Miller, 1777 to 1783. 
Daniel Horton, 1783 to 1787. 
Richard Hatfield, 1787 to 1796. 
John Falconer, 1796 to 1801, 

1819 to 1831. 
Jacob Purdy. 1801 to 1810. 
Joseph Horton, 1816-17-18. 
Elisha Horton, 1831 to 1838. 
Henry Willets, 1838 to 1844. 
John W. Mills, 1844-45-47, 

1860-61. 
Lewis C. Piatt, 1846, 1883 to 

1893. 
John Dick, 1848, 1850. 
Henry C. Field, 1849. 
Gilbert S. Lvon, 1851 to 1854, 

1857 to 1860. 
Robert Cochran, 1854, 1875. 
John J. Clapp, 1855-6. 
E. G. Sutherland, 1862 to 1867, 

1871 to 1874, 1878. j 

John D. Gray, 1867-8. ! 

M. Donohue, Jr.. 1869-70. j 

Elisha Horton, 1874. 1876-83. 
Stephen S. Marshall. 1877. | 
Artemus Egrsrleston, 1879 to i 

1882. 

Prank G. Schirmer, 1892 to I 
1899. 



YONKERS. 



David Hunt, 1788. 
James Archer, 1789. 
William Hadley, 1790 to 1794, 
1801. 

John Robert, 1795-96. 
Garrit Dykman, 1797 to 1801. 
Isaac Vermilyea, 1802 to 1825. 
Caleb Smith, 1825 to 1843. 
Prince W. Paddock, 1842 to 
1845. 

William W. Scrugrham, 1845 

to 1850, 1856-57. 
James L. Valentine, 1850 to 

1854, 1861-62. , 

WiUiam G. Aekerman, 1854- 
55. I 

Auerustus Van Cortlandt, 
1858-59. 



Ethan Fla^p, 1860-63-67-68- 

70-71. 
Isaac H. Knox, 1864-65-66. 
Edward De Witt, 1869. 
Charles R. Dusenberry, 1873- 

73, 1894-95-96. 
John H. Williams, 1874. 
Jacob Read, 1875-76-77, 1882 

to 1893. 

James V. Lawrence, 1878 to 
1882. 

This town was chartered as a 
city in 1873. 

First Ward— A. J. Prime, 1893. 
Michael Fitzgerald, 1894-95. 
James P. Stewart, 1896. 
William H. Greenhal^h, 

1897-98. 

Second Ward— Henrie A. Per- 
cival, 1893-94-95. 
Isaiah Frazier, 1896. 
j Hall B. Waring, 1897-98. 

Third Ward— P. A. Conneff, 
j 1898. 

' Elijah M. Yerks, 1894-95. 

j Edward A. Forsyth, 1896- 

97-98. 

j Fourth Ward— Jeremiah J. 

Clancy, 1893. 
I Charles R. Dusenberry, 

1 1894-95. 

John J. Burns, 1896. 
Thomas A. Browne, 1897- 
98. 

Fifth Ward— William H. Mc- 
Pherson, 1893. 
Isaiah Frazier, 1894-95. 
Henrie A. Pereival. 1896. 
Edward J. Ear], 1897-98. 

Sixth Ward— PatriekWhalen, 

1896-97-98. 

Seventh Ward— Charles R. 
Dusenberry, 1896. 
Walter B. Dixon, 1897-98. 

YORKTOWN. 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, 1760 to 

1775. 
Joseph Strang, 1775 to 1780, 

1783 to 1789. 
Sariiuel Haight, 1780 to 1783. 
Elijah Lee, 1789 to 1792, 1804-5. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Ebenezer White, 1792 to 1796, 

1803. 
Stephen Liens, 1796 to 1803. 
Peter Lane, 1806-7. 
John Contlin, 1808-9-10. 
Abraham Requa, 1811. 
Nathaniel Hyatt, 1812-13. 
Thomas Tompkins, 1814 to 

1822, 1823 to 1826. 
Abijah Lee, 1822. 
David D. Webbers, 1826-27. 
Bernardus Montross, 1828 to 

1831, 1843. 
James Underbill, 1831-32. 
Cornelius E. Ferris, 1833 to 

1836. 
Samuel Fowler, 1836 to 1841, 

1856. 
Stephen Lee, 1841-42. 
Elias Q. Tompkins, 1844 to 

1848. 
Beniamin D. Miller, 1848-49, 

1858-59-60-63. 



Isaac L. Tompkins, 1850-51. 
Abraham R. Strang:, 1852-53. 
Lawrence P. Bostwick, 1854- 

55. 
Daniel Strang, 1857. 
John B. Tompkins, 1861-62- 

73-74-75. 
Stephen H. Knapp, 1864-65- 

66. 
Joseph F. Palmer, 1867-68-71. 
E. Q. Horton, 1869-70. 
James C. Travis, 1872. 
Jesse Ryder, 1876. 
John W. Carpenter, 1877 to 

1881. 
William James Horton, 1881 

to 1887. 
Ira D. Strang, 1887 to 1894. 
Charles W. Underbill, 1894. 
T. F. Tompkin.e, 1895. 
Edward B. Kear, 1896 to 1899. 



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CHAIRMEN AND CLERKS. 

Following are the names of Supervisors who have been 
elected and served as Chairmen of the Board of Supervisors 
of this County, and the names of Clerks of the same body; 
Chairman from 1813 to 1898; Clerks from 1772 to: 1898. 

Chairmen : 

Abraham Odell, Greenburgh, 1813-14. 

Ezra Lockwood, Poundridge, 1815 to 1820. 

Thomas Tompkins, Yorktown, 1820, 1823-4-5. 

John Townsend, Eastchester, 1821-22. 

David Miller, Bedford, 1826-27, 1829-31-32. 

Richard M. Popham, Scarsdale, 1828. 

Zabud June, North Salem, 1830. 

Jeremiah Anderson, Harrison, 1833-34-35. 

Lawrence Davenport, New Rochelle, 1830 to 1843. 

Richard Palmer, Scarsdale, 1843. 

Benjamin M. Brown, Mamaroneck, 1844-45. 

W. W. Scrugham, Yonkers, 1846-47. 

Andrew Findlay, West Farms, 1848-49. 

Daniel Hunt, Lewisboro, 1850, 1855. 

John B. Haskin, West Farms, 1851. 

Robert H. Coles, New Rochelle, 1852-53. 

Joseph T, Carpenter, New Castle, 1854. 

Alsop H. Lockwood, Poundridge, 1856-57, 1859. 

Frost Horton, Peekskill, 1858. 

Abraham Hatfield, Westchester, 1860-61. 

Albert Badeau, New Rochelle, 1862. 

Edmund G. Sutherland, White Plains, 1863-64-65. 

William Cauldwell, Morrisania, 1866-68-69. 

William H. Robertson, Katonah, 1870-71. 

Francis M. Carpenter, Mount Kisco, 1872 to 1873, 1894-95. 

George W. Davids, New Rochelle, 1874. 

S. Wm. Johnson, Rye, 1875-76. 

Abraham O. Wilsea, Dobbs Ferry, 1877-78-79. 

David Quackinbush, Mount Vernon, 1880. 

James Hopkins, North Castle, 1881. 

Odle Close, North Salem, 1882. 

Matthias Banta, Mamaroneck, 1883-84-85-86-88. 

William Ryan, Port Chester, 1887. 

Miles Adams, Poundridge, 1889-90-91. 

Chauncey T. Secor, Scarsdale, 1893, 1897. 

Gideon W. Davenport, New Rochelle, 1896. 



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The Clerks elected were: 

Dr. Robert Graham, \\'hite Plains, 1772 to 1778. 

Abijah Gilbert, Salem, 1778 to 1807. 

Caleb Tompkins, Scarsdale, 1807. 

Elijah Ward, New Rochelle, 1808-9. 

Samuel Deall, Rye, 1810 to 1823. 

John B. Underbill, Mamaroneck, 1823 to 1846. 

Elisha Horton, White Plains, 1846. 

Robert H. Coles, New Rochelle, 1847-48-49. 

Daniel K. Sherwood, Sing Sing, 1850. 

Abram Hyatt, Sing Sing, 1851-52. 

Thomas W. Smith, New Castle, 1853. 

Hiram P. Rowell, White Plains, 1854 to 1858. 

Edmund G. Suthertand, White Plains, 1858-59-60-61. 

J. Malcolm Smith, Sing Sing, 1862 to 1867, 1880. 

Chas. E. Johnson, Mt. Vernon, 1868-69, 1871-2-3, 1883 to 1892. 

Casper C. Childs, Jr., Sing Sing, 1874-75. 

Joseph O. Miller, Mount Kisco, 1876-77-78. 

William A. Miller, White Plains, 1879. 

Henry C. Henderson, Westchester, 1881-82. 

M. James Mooney, White Plains, 1893. 

Edwin R. Hopkins, White Plains, 1894 to 1898. 



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EEFORMATOEY FOE WOMEN AT BEDFOED. 



That a Reformatory for Women has been built by the State, 
at Bedford, is due, priucipally, to the unceasing exertions of Mrs. 
Abbey Hopper Gibbons, of New York city, a daughter of Isaac 
T. Hopper, well-known as a philanthropist. Mrs. Gibbons 
was 77 years of age and had long been conspicuous as a worker 
in aid of the poor and unfortunate, when, in 1889, she de- 
cided upon asking the State of New York, through its Legis- 
lature, to make a suitable appropriation to defray the expense 
of constructing a reformatory for women. She advocated, in 
furtherance of her object, that as there were already several 
institutions, supported by the State, for the reformation of men, 
the State could at least afford one such institution for women. 
Mrs. Gibbons appeared personally among members of the Leg- 
islature, and so far succeeded as to have an act passed making 
a small appropriation. This proved enough to permit a com- 
mencement of the work of constructing necessary buildings. 
But the act did not become a law, owing to the interposition of 
a veto by Governor Hill. 

Undaunted, Mrs. Gibbons renewed her supplications, and in 
1892 was rewarded by the enactment of a law which promised 
to make possible the accomplishment of her heart's desire. Mrs. 
Gibbons declined appointment as a manager. She died in 1893, 
at the age of eighty-one years. 

The State Legislature passed, and the Governor approved. 
May 16, 1892, an act authorizing the establishment in the State 
of a reformatory to be located within the county of New York 
01 the county of Westchester, to be known as the Reformatory 
for Women. The act provides for the appointment by the 
Governor, within thirty days, after the passage of the act, of 
five residents of the State, at least two of whom shall be women, 
to constitute a board of managers of said reformatory, who 
shall hold office for one, two, three, four and five years respec- 
tively, as shall be indicated by the Governor, on making the 
appointments. Thereafter all appointments, except to fill va- 
cancies in said board, shall be for five years, and be made by the 
Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. When- 
ever a vacancy occurs in said board of managers by expiration 
of terms of office, or by death, resignation, removal or other- 
wise, the Governor shall appoint to fill such vacancy; but when 
an ;i])])ointment to fill out an unexpired term of office is made, 
the Governor shall so indicate at the time of making such ap- 
pointment. The person so appointed, shall hold office only un- 
til the close of such unexpired term. The Governor shall have 



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power to k^move any manager at any time, for cause, on giving 
to such manager a copy of the charge against him or her, and 
an opportunity of being heard in his or her defense. Each 
manager is required to furnish a bond of |5,000 to the State, 
with two or more sufficient securities, to be approved by the 
Comptroller of the State, conditioned for the faithful perform- 
ance of the duties required of them by the act. The said man- 
agers shall receive no compensation for their time or services, 
but the actual and necessary expenses of each of them while 
engaged in the performance of the duties of his or her office. 
These expenses on being presented in writing and verified by 
his or her affidavit, shall be paid quarterly by the treasurer of 
the said board of managers. The act authorized the managers 
to select and purchase a site in either county. If possible, to 
purchase a suitable building for the reformatory; if such build- 
ing is not available, and it becomes necessary to erect a build- 
ing for the purpose, the managers are empowered to contract 
for its construction. The building, it is ordered, shall be ample 
to hold 250 inmates and accommodate with living apartments 
the officials and employes of the institution. The Governor is 
to appoint a superintendent of construction, such superintend- 
ent to receive as salary a sum not to exceed |2,500 per year; 
the term of office of said superintendent of construction shall 
terminate upon the performance of the contracts made for the 
erection of the buildings. 

The board of managers, on the completion of the building, shall 
appoint a female superintendent and other officers, and em- 
ployes, and fix salaries of same. When and so soon as said 
reformatory shall be ready for the reception of inmates, and 
all the requirements of the act have been complied with, all 
police justices and other magistrates and courts within si^id 
limits, may sentence and commit to the said Reformatory for 
a term of not less than three years, nor more than five years, 
unless sooner discharged therefrom, by the board of managers 
thereof, any female between the ages of sixteen and thirty 
years, who shall have been convicted by such justice, or such 
court, of petit larceny, habitual drunkenness, being a common 
disorderly person, or of any misdemeanor or felony, other than 
murder, manslaughter, burglary or arson, and who is not in- 
sane, nor mentally or physically incapable of being substan- 
tially benefited by the discipline of said institution. 

Under this act, Governor Flower, on June 4, 1892, appointed 
as Managers, David N. Carvalho, of New York city; Alice Sand- 
ford, (daughter of the late Gen. Lyman Sandford, of New York 
city,) of Sing Sing, now of Pelham ; John Berry, of Mount Ver- 



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non; Arris S. Huntington, (a daugliter of BishoiJ Huntington,) 
of Syracuse, and Samuel Wm. Johnson, of Rye. The latter re- 
signed shortly after on account of ill health. Of the original 
Board of Managers, three remain in the present board. Mr. 
Johnson and Mr. Berry are dead. James Wood, of Mount 
KiscOj, was appointed December 11, 1894, to succeed the former, 
and Jeremiah T. Lockwood, of White Plains, was appointed 
March 16, 1898, to succeed Mr. Berry. 

An act was passed in 1897 providing for the appointment of 
an additional manager who shall be a physician, making the 
number six, instead of five, composing the Board. This ap- 
pointment has not yet been made. 

The board of managers decided to establish the Reforma- 
tory in the county of Westchester. Unable to purchase land 
with suitable buildings thereon or that might be made suitable, 
the managers selected and purchased a site, consisting of 
107^ acres of land, at Bedford Station, on the line of the Har- 
lem Railroad, the price agreed upon being |10,000. This piece 
of land, more than 300 feet above tide water, is bisected by a 
running stream of water from seven to thirteen feet wide. This 
property was taken possession of in April, 1893. Plans for the 
buildings to be erected on the site, which are to contain all the 
modern improvements, for similar institutions, were submitted 
and approved by the proper State authorities on December 29, 
L893. 

The plans arranged for an administration building three 
stories in height, providing household accommodations for the 
superintendent and family, and for such subordinate officers as 
said managers may deem necessary; also for rooms for the 
Board of Managers and a chapel. For four detached cottages, 
two stories in height, of the requisite dimensions, arrangements 
and accommodations for twenty-seven inmates each, or a total 
of 108, exclusive of the matrons and attendants for whom ac- 
commodations have been liberally provided. In addition to the 
other rooms, an assembly room 22x30 feet is provided for in 
each of the four cottages. Also, for a dormitory building which 
is substantially fireproof, with two absolutely fireproof stair- 
cases for ingress and egress. This building is three stories in 
height and provides 144 rooms for inmates, the attendants and 
all subordinate officers necessary for administration. 

The contract for the construction of these buildings was 
awarded April 4, 1S94; the amount agreed upon being |165,000. 
The erection of the buildings was completed last year, but the 
want of necessary funds to equip and furnish the interior, pre- 
vents occupancy. The amount of money appropriated, from 



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time to time, up to date, by different Legislatures, on account 
of the construction, aggregates |247,050; $100,000 was appro- 
priated in 1892, $70,050 in 1895, $30,000 in 1896 and $47,000 in 
1897; no appropriation was granted in 1898 though one was 
asked for, as same is necessary to complete and make available 
the property. It is estimated that $100,000 more will be needed 
to properly equip and furnish the buildings. The progress of 
building has been greatly retarded by Legislatures ignoring ap- 
peals and neglecting to appropriate amounts actually necessary 
to carry on the work, 



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DISTINGUISHED MEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE 
COUNTY'S HISTOKY. 



ODLE CLOSE was born in the town of Greenwich, Conn, on 
July 15, 1817. He was married on October 26, 1846, at Glens Falls, 
ISTew York, to Miss Saniantha Brush Numan, daughter of Lewis 
Numan, Esq., of that jDlace, who survived him but a short time. He 
died at his residence in Croton Falls on Kovember 19, 1894. He 
sprang from good stock. His ancestors for more than a century 
were natives of New England. He w^as the son of Edward and 
Charlotte (Hobby) Close and the grandson of Odle and Hannah 
(Brush) Close. He earned for himself the means for his academic 
and collegiate education after sharing, in common with his brothers, 
such advantages as were offered by the common school near his 
home, and prepared himself for college at the Academy of Quaker 
Eidge, in his native town, and at that of Plainfield in New Jersey. 
He entered Yale College and was graduated with the class of 1842. 
He was at one time principal of the academy in Wilton, Conn, and 
for three years he was the principal of Bedford Academy, one of the 
oldest educational institutions in this State. He read law with 
Judge Robert S. Hart, of Bedford, and was admitted to the bar in 
May, 1845, and subsequently practiced in the courts of the United 
States. In 1853 he united with William H. Robertson, of Bedford, 
in forming the law firm of Close & Robertson, and the partnership 
was never broken throughout his life. They opened a firm office 
at Mott Haven, now a part of New York city. They continued 
their firm office in this place till after the Civil War, when they re- 
moved it to White Plains, the county town of Westchester. Under 
the law of 1866 he was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the 
Congressional district by Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the 
ITnited States, which office he held till the law was repealed twelve 
years later. For twenty-four consecutive years he represented the 
town of North Salem in the Westchester County Board of Supervis- 
ors, and was regarded by his associates in the board as authority on 
all legal matters. He served on the Constitutional Convention for the 
revision of the New York State Constitution by appointment of the 
Governor and Senate of the State, in 1873, and again in the Consti- 
tutional Commission in 1890. At the time of his death he was, 
as he had been for many years, a member of the New York State 
Bar Association. 

He was one of the original organizers of the Oriental Bank, in 



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the city of New York, iu the summer of 1853, and retained till his 
death his connection therewith. He was also engaged in the organ- 
ization of the Central Bank of Westchester, at Wliite Plains, and 
for many years, and at the time of his death, was one of its directors, 
and he had been a director in the Old Farmers' and Drovers' Bank 
of Somers for a number of years. When the Putnam County Sav- 
ings Bank was established he was one of the trustees, and so con- 
tinued. In politics he was an old-fashioned Republican, having been 
among those concerned in the formation of the party at its begin- 
ning. He never failed, however, to honor and endorse integrity and 
loyalty to honest interests of nation or locality among political op- 
ponents, and the record of his public and business life, as well as 
social, bears testimony to the confidence with which he was regarded 
by those who differed from him in these matters. In the spring of 
1854 he removed his private office and his home from Bedford to 
Croton Falls, in North Salem, the northernmost town of Westchester 
County, never thereafter changing his residence. 



The foregoing is a portion of the memorial of the Supreme 
Court and its record, with a few very slight corrections and additions 
to the printed copy. 



PETER COOPER, the founder of Cooper Institute, New 
York city, and general benefactor of all mankind, was, in his 
boyhood, a resident of Peekskill, this county, where his father 
conducted a small beer brewery. At seventeen years of age, 
he decided to become something else than a beer brewer; accord- 
ingly, with his father's consent, he left Peekskill and journeyed 
to New Y^ork city in search of something to do and a fortune. 
He first succeeded in apprenticing himself to a carriage builder 
for four years, at $25 a year. Having but a meagre education, 
and learning the value of knowledge, the young apprentice en- 
gaged all his spare moments in a search after that which in- 
structs. He did his work well as an apprentice, after which he 
was engaged in other pursuits and perfected several inventions; 
he finally engaged in business for himself, but his business was 
ruined by the dull season of 1815 ; he subsequently embarked in 
the business of glue manufacture which ultimately resulted in 
producing for him a princely fortune. Other enterprises of a 
business nature also contributed to his riches. Mr. Cooper is 
quoted as having said in his early days, "If I ever prosper in 
business, and acquire more property than I need, I will try to 
found an institution in the city of New York, wherein appren- 



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tice boys and young mechanics shall have a chance to get 
knowledge in the evening." This was said when he was a poor 
apprentice boy, anxious for knowledge and unable to obtain it. 
How well he carried out that resolution time has proven. Forty 
years after he was able to accomplish his desire. The institute 
was planned after the Polytechnic School in Paris. The site 
is the same he decided upon years before, when he first con- 
templated the idea. He bought sections of this site, upon 
which the institute stands, from time to time, as he had money 
to spare, until he had purchased the whole block. He bought 
the first lot about thirty years before he began to build. In 
1854 he began to erect the structure, of stone, brick and iron, 
six stories high and fire proof. It cost $700,000. It was given 
by him into the hands of trustees, completed, in 1859. Subse- 
quently he gave |150,000 to provide the institution with a 
library of books of reference, free to the public. Later he gave 
other financial aid. Mr. Cooper was born in the year 1791, and 
died April 4, 1883. 



JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, who was first an officer in 
the United States Navy and then became famous as an Ameri- 
can novelist, is made specially popular with residents of this 
county owing to the fact that he resided among us and was a 
local property owner, having erected on Quaker Ridge, in 
Scarsdale, near Mamaroneck, an attractive cottage which he 
named the "Angevine," in honor of a Huguenot family, who 
were his friends and neighbors. In this cottage, in 1820, he 
conceived the notion of writing his first book. The belief that 
he possessed within himself the power of becoming an author 
came about in this wise: He had just finished reading a 
novel, that had not pleased him; throwing the book down he 
remarked in disgust, "such a book, I could write a better novel 
than that myself." His friends laughed at the idea of his writ- 
ing a novel ; nevertheless he boldly attempted the feat, and as a 
result he produced his first book, titled "Precaution," in 1821. 
Next year "The Spy" appeared. In quick succession followed, 
"The Pioneers," "The Pilot," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The 
Red Rover," and "The Prairie," and others, numbering thirty 
works, up to the time of his death, September 14, 1851. He was 
born at Burlington, New Jersey, September 15, 1789; was ad- 
mitted at the age of 13 years to Yale; three years later he be- 
came a midshipman in the United States Navy; on his retire- 
ment from the Navy, in 1811, he married, and the next ten years 
of his life were spent in a quiet, domestic fashion, most of the 
time in his Quaker Ridge home. 



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EZRA CORNELL, the founder of the Cornell University, is 
a Westchester County boy, the son of Elijah Cornell, a farmer 
residing at Westchester Landing, between Cornell's Neck and 
Throgg's Neck. He was born January 11, 1807. He passed 
his boyhood in working on his father's farm, and going to the 
district school during the winter. In 1828, when he came of 
age, Cornell went to Ithaca, N. Y., and learned the trade of a 
machinest. He was strictly temperate, drank no intoxicating 
drinks, used no tobacco. His cleverness as a machinest proved 
of great benefit in many ways in later days, in connection with 
his inventive genius. Ezra Cornell has a place in the history 
of the telegraph, which would have caused his name to be re- 
membered if he had never founded a university. At a critical 
moment his ingenuity came to the rescue of Samuel F. B. 
Morse's enterprise, and saved it, perhaps, from premature ex- 
tinction. The telegraph, in return for this service, gave him 
a colossal fortune, and enabled him to carry out a cherished 
wish and give to the State the now famous institution of learn- 
ing which bears his name. 

He was elected a Member of Assembly in the years 1862 and 
1863, representing the county of Tompkins. From 1864 to 
1868 he served in the State Senate as the representative of the 
24th Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Broome, 
Tioga and Tompkins. 



THOMAS CORNELL, widely known on account of his 
success in establishing one of the largest and most important 
transportation companies in this country, was born in White 
Plains, this county, in the year 1814. As president of the 
Cornell Steamboat Company he controlled numerous and 
costly steamboats engaged in carrying passengers and freight; 
no man's name was better known along the Hudson River than 
Mr. Cornell's. For many years he served as president of the 
First National Bank of Rondout, the place of his residence 
after leaving Westchester County. He was elected a repre- 
sentative in Congress, for the Fifteenth District, in the year 
1866, and again in the year 1880, as a Republican. Mr. Cornell 
by close application to business and hard work, starting from 
the lower rung of the ladder, was able to reach an elevated 
position among the State's most prominent men in commercial 
and financial affairs. 



CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, one of the best known, if not the 
most widely known man in the United States, and certainly the 
best known American abroad, was born in Peekskill. this 



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county, on April 23, 1834, a descendant from the Huguenots. 
He graduated from Yale in 1856, studied law with Hon. Wil- 
liam Nelson, of Peekskill, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. 
In 1859 he hung out his sign in the village of Peekskill, and 
while waiting for clients indulged in politics as a pastime. In 
1801 he was elected an Assemblyman from the Third Assembly 
District on the Union Republican ticket, and was re-elected, 
serving in the S5th and 80th sessions of the Legislature, 1862 
and 1803. He was unmarried at this time. In a pen sketch of 
members of the Assembly for 1802, a journalist had the follow- 
ing to say relative to the "Son of Westchester" : "Mr. Depew is 
one of the ablest members of the Assembly, and bids fair to be- 
come a prominent man in the State. He possesses decided abil- 
ity to which may be added a good degree of industry, energy and 
perseverance. Although looking much older, he is scarcely 
twenty-nine years of age; but his bearing and business habits, 
pai-take more of the character of middle age, or even maturer 
years, than of the impetuosity and recklessness of youth. He 
seems to have reached manhood earlier than usually falls to 
the lot of mortals, or, if not fully matured, and he improves as 
rapidly for a few years to come, as in the past, he may be set 
down as possessing extraordinary talents. His looks, bearing, 
habits and settled character indicate maturity of years, while 
Ihe fact is indisputable that he is still in his youth. His father 
is only fifty-five years old, and his mother is less than fifty. He 
is, in fact, a venerable young man, a proper associate and com- 
panion of men of the preceding generation. His vigor of in- 
tellect, too, is in accordance with his appearance — possessing 
the strength, solidity and ripeness of middle age." His popu- 
larity in the Assembly secured for him, from the Republican 
party, the nomination for Secretary of State, in 1803; he was 
elected and served the full term of two years. Mr. Depew 
was appointed County Clerk of this county, on May 25, 1867, by 
Governor Reuben E. Fenton, in place of Hiram P. Rowell, de- 
ceased. Owing to pressure of other business, Mr. Depew 
could not accept the honor, and accordingly declined it. 

On April 20, 1870, he was appointed a Commissioner of Emi- 
gration, but, for good and sufficient reasons given, declined to 
accept the position. April 20, 1871, he was appointed a New 
Capitol Commissioner and served the full term. In 1872 he 
ran for Lieutenant Governor on the Democratic-Liberal Repub- 
lican ticket, with Francis Keman, the candidate for Governor, 
but was defeated. He acted as Boundary Commissioner and 
Agent of the State, under appointments made 1875 and in 1880. 
He was appointed a Regent of the State University in 1877 and 
still holds that office. 



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JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, M. D., doubtless one of the 
best known of American poets, was bom in the town of West- 
chester, on August 7, 1795, and died September 20, 1820. His 
remains lie buried in the little cemetery at Hunt's Point, in 
that town. He wrote the justly popular poem titled, ''The 
Culprit Fay," in three days. He is the author also of many 
other poems dear to the hearts of his countrymen, but none 
more than that patriotic inspiration titled "The American 
Flag." 



When PETER FANUEIL, in the year 1720, at the age of 
eighteen years, left his native town of New Rochelle, to "better 
his condition" in the city of Boston, he doubtless had no idea 
of the prominent place he would occupy in history, that an act 
planned solely to convenience his fellow citizens would, for 
ever, stamp his name upon the memory of every patriotic 
American. When young Fanueil reached Boston he found em- 
ployment with his uncle, Andrew Fanueil, a leading merchant 
of that city. In 1737 the uncle died leaving his wealth to the 
nephew. In 1740 the people of Boston divided on a proposition 
to build a central Market-house, and quite bitter were the dis- 
putes arising. At this juncture Peter Fanueil came forward 
and offered to erect the proposed building at his own expense 
and present it, when completed, to the city. The tender was 
accepted, and Mr. Fanueil did better than his offer, he ad^ed 
a commodious hall over the market, sufficiently large to seat 
one thousand persons. Thus Boston was put in possession of 
Fanueil Hall, "The Cradle of American Liberty," which has 
from the earliest days of the American Revolution been famous, 
owing to the acts of patriotic men assembled within its walls. 
As an evidence of Boston's appreciation of the gift, may be 
mentioned the fact that when the building had to be restored 
after its almost utter destruction by fire, in 1761, no other 
name for it than that of Fanueil Hall would be considered. 
Citizens of Boston were determined that the building should 
remain as a memorial of the New Rochelle boy and of Hugue- 
not munificence, to inspire in the future similar manifestations 
of public spirit and good citizenship. 

Mr. Fanueil, the founder and donor, did not live long after 
the completion of the building, in fact he died the same year, 
and just five years after the death of his uncle, in the year 1742. 



DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT. Admiral of the United 
States Navy, bom July 5, 1801, and who died on August 14. 1870. 
the most famous of famed naval officers produced by the late 



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Civil AVar, was at the opening of the unpleasantness, a respected 
resident of Hastings-on-the-Hudson, in this county. Here he 
spent his "leave" days with his family, and many neighbors 
learned to love the "unpretentious and kind hearted gentleman," 
as they termed him, judging from his manner and bearing while 
among them. He was at the time connected with the home 
squadron, with the rank of Captain. In January, 1862, he left 
Hastings, having been appointed to the command of a naval ex- 
pedition to act against the Confederates in the Gulf of Mexico; 
on the 28th of that month he received the surrender of New Or- 
leans; was made Vice-Admiral in 1863; assisted at the taking oi 
Vicksburg, July 4,1863. In 1866, he attained the rank of Admiral, 
and at the conclusion of the war he was presented by merchants 
of New York, with |50,000, as an evidence of their appreciation 
of services rendered. At the end of the war Admiral Farragut 
spent many happy days at his old home in Hastings. 



JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, the eminent traveler and ex- 
plorer, who sjjent his latter years on his magnificent estate, on 
the banks of the Hudson, in North Tarrytown, in the town of 
Mount Pleasant, was one of the most widely known men of his 
time. He was born at Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1813. Was 
graduated from Charleston College. President Van Buren ap- 
pointed him, in 1840, a lieutenant in the Corps of Topographical 
Engineers. Was married in 1841. His successful attempts to 
penetrate the Rocky Mountains, his establishment of the feasi- 
bility of an overland communication between the two sides of 
the Continent and his discovery of the route to California, in the 
3^ears 1841-42-43, made him famous at home and abroad. He 
took part in the war with Mexico. In 1849 he settled in Cali- 
fornia and was elected a Senator for that State. In 1856 he 
was nominated as the Republican candidate for President, 
against James Buchanan, Democrat, who was elected. In 
1861, in the war of the Rebellion, he was appointed a Major- 
General and obtained command of the western district; on 
August 31, 1861, he ordered the emancipation of the slaves of 
those who, in his district, were in arms against the United 
States; but the President revoked the order as unauthorized 
and premature. In this Fremont anticipated by only thirteen 
months the President's own proclamation; but he was never- 
theless relieved from command. In a few months he was rein- 
stated and in 1862, after the battle of Cross Keys, on June 2, he 
resigned, because he would not serve under Gen. Pope, whom 
he ranked. In 1864 he was named for the Presidency but 
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the time of liis death, July 13, 1890, he was engaged in various 
railroad enterprises. 



JOHN THOMPSON HOFFMAN, the twenty-third and twen- 
ty-fourth Governor of the State of New York, was born at Sing 
Sing, in this county, on January 10, 1828, a son of Dr. A. K. 
Hotfman. He was graduated from Union College in 1846; in 
1849, when twenty-one years of age, he wa& admitted to the 
bar. In 1860 he was elected Recorder of the City of New 
York. Was elected Mayor of that city in 1865. In 1866 he 
was defeated by Reuben E. Fenton, Republican, for Governor, 
but in 1868 he was more successful, being elected by a majority 
of 28,046 over John A. Griswold, the Republican nominee. He 
was re-elected Governor in 1870. During his administration, 
the terms of office of Justice of the Supreme Court were in- 
creased to fourteen years. He was, on retirement from the 
office of Governor, urged by his friends for the Democratic 
nomination for President of the United States. 



JAMES WILLIAM HUSTED, the subject of this sketch, 
was doubtless one of the cleverest, most genial and remarkable 
political personages ever produced in the history of the Empire 
State. He, it is said, knew more men by name than any other 
man in the State, and every public man was proud to say that 
he had met, at some time. Gen. James W. Husted, whom to meet 
once, was to remember always. His quick wit, ready action 
in time of need, his many resources employed in aid of friends, 
that characteristic knowing wink of the eye, and the jolly word 
spoken in season, made him famous, and also made him an 
army of friends, and helped baffle all attempts of his opponents 
to relegate him to the rear, politically speaking. 

Mr. Husted was born at Bedford, in this county, on October 
31, 1833. His parents were Americans, who were descendants 
of English and French imigrants. His early educational train- 
ing was secured in the Bedford Academy, where he had for 
schoolmates several, who in after years, shared with him the 
leadership of the Republican party in this county. Mr. Husted 
delighted in relating how, as a boy, he was introduced to 
"Bill" Robertson by his cousin "Ki"; " *Bil,' on being intro- 
duced," said Mr. Husted, "immediately put out his hand to 
shake, following the shake with a love pat on the back; a cus- 
tom then strongly with him and which, as his friends will re- 
call, grew with the years. That genial greeting made me his 
friend from that hour." 

Mr. Husted was graduated from Yale College in 1854; one 



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of his fellow students being Chauncey M. Depew, of Peekskill; 
Husted and Depew v/ere cliums then and always remained so, 
politically, socially and otherwise. He taught school tor a 
time and then turned to the study of law. After studying with 
Edward Wells, of Peekskill, he was admitted to practice law 
in 1857. Though he engaged actively in the practice of his 
profession, he became best known as a man of affairs, as a 
prominent figure in the politics of the State. Like most men, 
he had a hobby, and that hobby was up-to-date politics; he 
enjoyed it as labor and as recreation alike, in season and out 
of season, and none excelled him in cleverness at the pastime. 
His first experience as an office holder was when he was ap- 
pointed to the position of School Superintendent of his native 
town in ±851). In 1859 he became the first School Commissioner 
of the Third District of this county by election ; in 18G0 he was 
appointed as Deputy State Superintendent of the Insurance 
Department; in 1862, Governor Morgan appointed him a Har- 
bor Master, and then followed his appointment as Deputy Cap- 
tain of the Port of New York; he was appointed a Commissioner 
of Emigration in 1870, in place of Chauncey M. Depew, who 
had declined the office. He was first elected a Member of As- 
sembly in the year 1869, to represent the Third Assembly Dis- 
trict of this county, and he continued being elected and re- 
elected to the latter office up to and including the year of his 
death ; serving from 1869 to 1878 from this county, 1879-80 from 
Rockland County, and again in 1881 and 1883 to 1892 from 
this county. He was Speaker of the Assembly in the years 
1874-76-78-86-87-90. He had a longer legislative experience 
than any man in the history of the State — twenty-two years; 
he also had the distinction of having been Speaker more times 
than any other man, serving one time more than his nearest 
competitors, Dewitt C. Littlejohn and Alexander Sheldon, who 
each served as Speaker five times. Mr. Husted was defeated 
for the Assembly in 1882, by John Hoag, Democrat, of Sing 
Sing, much to his surprise; he attributed this defeat to over- 
confidence on his part, and determined henceforth not to under- 
estimate the popularity of his opponents, even if assured that 
they were named by professing friends in order to aid his can- 
vass and insure his election. The next year he defeated Mr. 
Hoag. In 1881 he received the Republican nomination for State 
Treasurer, but was defeated by Robert A. Maxwell, Democrat. 
His going into Rockland County and standing there as a can- 
didate for the Assembly in 1878, was to prove, first, that his 
popularity was not confined to the Third Assembly Distnct 
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the feelings of certain of his ambitious Republican friends who 
conceived the idea that he was selfishly monopolizing the field 
and preventing others, as worthy, from posing as legislative 
representatives from the Third Assembly District. Previous 
to Mr. Husted's invasion, Rockland County could be counted 
upon, at any time, for from 400 to 600 Democratic majority; 
a Democratic stronghold always figuring in the Democratic 
column. Since then the election of a Republican Assemblyman 
in that county has been more the custom than the exception. 

For over thirty years Mr. Husted was in active political life. 
He became a member of the Republican party in 1859 and at- 
tended its national convention as a delegate in 1876, 1880, 1884 
and 1888. He always took an active interest in the National 
Guard, of which he was a member; serving as Judge Advocate 
of the Seventh Brigade and as Major General of the Fifth Di- 
vision. He also was an influential and distinguished member 
of the Masonic fraternity, once having held the position of 
Grand Master of that body. He wore the jewel of the thirty- 
third degree. His death occurred at his home in Peekskill, on 
September 25, 1892. 



WASHINGTON IRVING, who for many years occupied 
"Sunnyside," his romantic home on the banks of the Hudson, 
in the village of Tarrytown, was one of the most respected of 
the distinguished residents of this county. It was at this home 
he died suddenly, of heart disease, on November 28, 1859, aged 
76 years. Mr. Irving was born in the city of New York, April 
3, 1783, the eleventh and youngest child of William Irving and 
Sarah, his wife. He was named in honor of General Wash- 
ington. He was very fond of study as a boy and took advant- 
age of all opportunities to acquire knowledge. He studied 
law and was admitted to the bar. Ill health at first and a love 
of literature afterward, prevented him from practicing the pro- 
fession of law. He was one of the half dozen lawyers engaged 
to defend Aaron Burr, in Richmond, against the charge of 
treason. 

In 1802, in connection with his brother. Dr. Peter Irving, he 
served as a journalist on a New York daily paper. He began 
his literary career by contributing a series of satirical essays. 
After the war of 1812, Washington Irving joined one of his 
brothers who was established as a merchant in Liverpool, and 
there occurred the fortunate calamity which drove him to adopt 
literature as a profession. The brothers failed in business and 
lost all they had in the world. Shortly after this Washington 
Irving began the publication of tho Sketch Book, and other 



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works of interest and profit. He was appointed a Regent of 
the State University in 1835, and was appointed by President 
Tyler as United States Minister to Spain in 1842. 

He never married. As stated, he spent the last years of his 
life at "Sunnyside," with his nieces, who after his death, con- 
tinued to reside on the estate; the chamber occupied by Mr. 
Irving was always kept as it was in his life time. The prop- 
erty recently came into the possession of a gentleman, also a 
relative of Mr. Irving, who has caused some alteration to be 
made to the dwelling and about the place. On April 3, 1883, 
took place the Centennial Celebration of Washington Irving's 
birth, held under the auspices of the "Irving Association." All 
that remains of the mortal Irving now^ lies buried in the old 
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in North Tarrytown. An unpreten- 
tious and the plainest marble slab in the cemetery marks his 
last resting place. No towering monument, marble urn, nor 
bronze, are placed to remind the visitor that here lies the re- 
mains of one of God's noblest creations. The plot is enclosed 
with only hedge and fern, and display of any kind is avoided 
in conformity with one of his last requests. The original slab 
had to be replaced, because relic hunters saw fit to chip off a 
piece of the stone, here and there, until little or nothing was 
left of the simple headstone. 



JOHN JAY, though born in New York city, was closely 
identified with this county, where, as a boy and man, he spent 
many years of his life, especially those years that close an 
eventful and most honorable career. 

He was born December 15, 1745, the descendant of a 
Huguenot family; was graduated from Kings College, now 
Columbia College, New York city, on May 15, 17G4; studied law 
and was admitted to the bar in 1768. He appears in history 
at the very head of all early movements originated to benefit 
his countrymen in their struggles against British t^^ranny. 
Was chosen a member of the Provisional War Committee, or 
Committee of Resistance, which convened immediately after 
the battle of Lexington, in 1775; the address sent to England, 
giving notice that New York had, '^Resolved to stand or fall 
with liberty of the continent," was first signed by Mr. Jay. He 
was an active member of the Continental Congresses ; he drafted 
the first State Constitution in 1777, and was made the first Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court under that Constitution; in 1777 
he assisted in devising a State seal; was Speaker of Congress 
in 1778; United States Minister to Spain in 1770; in 1782, was 
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peace with Great Britian; on his return to this country, in 1782, 
he was appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs in President 
AVashington's cabinet; in 1784 he served as a Boundary Com- 
missioner and was chosen a Regent of the State University; 
was a member of the 1788 Constitutional Convention; Presi- 
dent >\'ashington, in 1781), appointed him as first Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States; in 1794 he was 
made Minister to England; was elected the second Governor 
of the State of New York in April, 1795, and re-elected for a 
second term; on his leaving the Governorship, President Wash- 
ington again tendered him an appointment to the position of 
Chief Justice of the United States, which he declined, owing 
to his desire to retire to private life; in 1787 Mr. Jay was 
elected a Vice-Chancellor of the State, and in 1796 was elected 
a Chancellor of the State. 

His years of retirement were spent on his estate at Bedford, 
in this county, greatly respected and reverenced by all his 
neighbors and acquaintances, and where his death occurred in 
1829, in the 84th year of his age. 
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PETER A. JAY, of Bedford, son of Judge John Jay, headed 
the delegation elected from this county to the State Constitu- 
tional Convention of 1821. According to the convention's 
records, he was one of the prominent leaders and foremost in 
debate. In support of his motion to strike the word ''white" 
from the Constitution, and to permit the colored population to 
vote at elections, he delivered a most eloquent and impressive 
speech, said to have been the best address delivered during the 
sessions of the couventiou. 



WILLIAM JAY, Avho served as County Judge of this county 
from 1820 to 1823, was the second son of Hon. John Jay. He was 
born in JSTew York city, Jime 16, 1789. He graduated from Yale 
College in 1808, and shortly after was admitted to the bar and suc- 
ceeded in establishing an extensive law practice. He was appointed 
County Judge by Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins. He died on October 
14, 1858. In recognition of his ability and of the great services he 
rendered in various ways, prominent residents of the county caused 
to be hung over the bench in the court room of the County Court 
House in Wliite Plains, a painted portrait of Judge William Jay. 



J. HOWARD KITCHING, Colonel of the Sixth New York 
Heavy Artillery, was born in New York city on July 16, 1838; 
at the commencement of the war he was a resident of Peekskill. 



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The regiment was composed mostly of meu from Westchester 
count}'. When advanced to the position of Colonel, April 
11, 1863, to succeed Col. William H. Morris, promoted, he was 
but tAventy-tive years of age. His popularity with his men was 
remarkable. He died in Yonkers, January 16, 1865, from the 
effects of wounds received at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., 
October 19, 1864. A Grand Army Post at Yonkers is named in 
his honor. 



WILLIAM LEGGETT, who was born in 1802 and died in 
New Rochelle, May 29, 1839, was one of the most forcible politi- 
cal writers of his day. He was well known as an author up to 
1829, and took little or no interest in politics. In the latter 
year he became editor of the Evening Post, New York city, and 
soon developed into a strong expounder of political doctrines 
bearing upon prevailing issues. He early attracted attention 
by the force of his writings, and while many condemned his 
utterances, about an equal number coincided with his views, 
which favored Free Trade and the abolition of slavery. He 
and William Cullen Bryant were inseparable friends. 



THOMAS PAINE, an author famous for his connection with 
American and French Revolutions, and for his advocacy of in- 
fidel opinions, w-as born January 29, 1737, at Thetford, in the 
county of Norfolk, England. He came to America in 1774. In 
1776 he published a pamphlet titled "Common Sense," in which 
he maintained the cause of the Colonies against the mother 
country; this publication secured for him the friendship of Gen. 
Washington and other patriotic leaders. His appointment by 
Congress, as Secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, 
followed. In 1791 he published "The Rights of Men." During 
a term of imprisonment, in France, 1793. for expressed politi- 
cal opinions, he wrote his book titled "The Age of Reason." 
At the end of the American Revolution the Government pre- 
sented to Paine a large landed estate of 300 acres, in Upper 
New Rochelle, formerly belonging to Frederic Deveau, a Tory, 
and which had been confiscated. When Paine returned to this 
country, in 1802, he went to reside upon this estate, to which 
he gave the name of "Mount Paine Place." He died in New 
York city on the 8th of June, 1809. His body was taken to his 
home in New Rochelle, and was buried on his farm in the cor- 
ner of a field at the entrance of a lane leading up to his dwell- 
ing, and a few feet to the south, outside the wall of his pres- 
ent monument. Sometime in 1821 the remains were disin- 
terred, stealthily in the night, and carried off, it is said to 



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England, by agents of one \\'illiam Corbett. The present rest- 
ing place of Paine's remains is not certainly known. An Eng- 
lish journal, some years ago, published a statement to the ef- 
fect that the executors of William Corbett, in making an in- 
ventory of the last named gentleman's effects, found stowed 
away in a garrett, a chest containing human bones, which were 
supposed to be the bones of Paine; the chest was sunk in the 
river Thames. 



HEZEKIAH D. ROBERTSON, who represented this Sena- 
torial District in the Legislature from 1860 to 1864, was born 
in the town of Bedford, on December 15, 1828, of Scotch and 
German extraction. He was a cousin of ex-Senator William 
H. Robertson who had previously represented the district. He 
received an academical education in his own town in hopes of 
entering college and subsequently becoming a lawyer, but the 
sudden death of both his parents changed all his arrangements, 
and he was induced to turn his attention to agricultural pur- 
suits. He commenced life a farmer in the town of Poundridge. 
At the age of twenty-one years he was chosen Superintendent 
of Schools, and at the close of his official term, was elected Su- 
pervisor of that town. He removed to Bedford, in 1853; im- 
mediately upon his removal he was chosen Superintendent of 
Schools of the town of Bedford, and subsequently, and for 
some years, was elected Supervisor of that town. As a citi- 
zen of the 9th Congressional District, he advocated and secured, 
from the American part}', the re-nomination and election 
of John B. Haskins to his seat in the Thirty-sixth Congress. He 
attempted to be elected to the Assembly in 1856 in the First 
District, but was defeated by Arnell F. Dickinson. He was 
married December 16, 1861, to Miss Sarah C. Butler, daughter 
of Rev. Charles F. Butler, of Svracuse. 



GENERAL HENRY STORMS, who died at his residence in 
North Tarrytown, on April 11, 1874, was born in New York city, 
on June 4, 1795. He was Captain of the First Horse Artillery, of 
that city. In 1824, when General Lafayette visited this coun- 
try, he, at the head of his company, bad the honor of escort- 
ing that friend of America on his way from New York to Boston. 
Mr. Storms was elected and served as Assistant Alderman of 
the 12th Ward of New York city in 1826; he was appointed by 
Gov. Bouck as Commissary-General of the State, and served in 
that office from 1842 to 1848; was elected an Inspector of State 
Prisons in 1851 and served a full term, until 1854. 



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SAMUEL J. TILDEN, the twenty-sixth Governor of the 
State, was, for several years, aud at the time of his death m 
1883, a resident of the city of Yonkers, in this county, occupy- 
ing in retirement his princely home, "Greystone," on the banks 
of the Hudson River. He was born at New Lebanon, Columbia 
County, New York, in 1814. Was educated in Yale College, 
and graduated from the University of New York. He adopted 
the legal profession. In 1844, he established ''The New York 
Daily News," in New York city. Was elected a Member of 
Assembly and also a Member of the Constitutional Convention 
in 1846. In 1807 he was selected as Chairman of the Demo- 
cratic State Committee, in w^hich position he continued several 
years. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
1867. In 1871 he was again elected an Assemblyman. In 
1874 he was elected Governor over John A. Dix, Republi- 
can, by 50,000 majority. In 1876 he was the Democratic nomi- 
nee for President of the United States, and received a ma- 
jority of the popular vote, but the Electoral College awarded 
the office to Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican candidate. 
In 1880, Mr. Tilden declined, in a letter to the Convention, to 
permit his name to be again used in connection with a re-nomi- 
nation for the Presidency. 



DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, the fourth Governor of this State, 
was to the Manor born. He first saw the light of day within 
our borders, having been born at Scarsdale, on June 21, 1774, 
a descendant of a family, then, as since, recognized as one of 
the most prominent in the county annals. He was graduated 
from Columbia College, adopted the legal profession and be- 
came a resident of New York. From that city he was chosen 
a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1801. In 1804 
he was elected a representative to the 9th Congress, but did 
not qualify, preferring to accept instead the offered position 
of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Gov- 
ernor Lewis and Senate. The latter office he held until June 
9, 1807, when he retired to accept the Governorship to which 
he had been elected, and when he was only thirty-three years 
of age. He was re-elected three times and served as Governor 
until February 24, 1817, when he was elected Vice-President 
of the United States. On January 27, 1817, Governor Tomp- 
kins sent a message to the Legislature recommending the abol- 
ition of slavery in the State. The Legislature, acting on his 
recommendation, decided almost immediately that slavery be 
abolished in the State within ten years. It was declared abol- 
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and again sworn in as Vice-President March 4, 1821. His death 
occurred J une 11, 1825, at his residence, at Tompkinsville, Stat- 
en Island, at the age of fifty-one years, and he was buried in a 
vault at St. Mark's Church, New York city. A monument is 
being erected in Scarsdale to mark Gov. Tompkins' birth-place. 



MATTHEW VASSAR, the founder of the College for Young 
Ladies at Poughkeepsie, the first institution of the kind ever 
attempted, was born in England, in 1792, and came to this 
country with his parents in 1796; he died in June, 1868, while 
attempting to deliver his third annual address before the trus- 
tees of the college. His father settled in Poughkeepsie, where 
he became a brewer; the brewer intended that his son should 
enter the brewery and learn the business, but young Vassar 
rebelled, he had such a repugnance to the business that he 
ran away rather than go into the brewery as an employe or 
otherwise. He remained away from home five years, getting 
employment where he could; for a short period of the time 
named, the boy was employed as a clerk in a store in the town 
of Cortlandt. Returning home he entered his father's brewery 
as an employe. A fire destroyed the uninsured brewery and 
other property not long after, and reduced the family from 
comparative affluence to destitution. Young Vassar, at 19 
years of age, undertook the task of restoring the fortunes of 
the family. With no other capital on hand than a few kettles, 
saved from the ruins, reinforced by energy and pluck, he 
started a miniature brewery, making one or two barrels of beer 
at a time, and delivered it himself to his customers. His 
father never learned to read, and did not feel the necessity of 
giving his sons more than the mere rudiments of knowledge. 
Much of young Vassar's leisure time he devoted to study. Hav- 
ing no children, and few heirs of his own kindred, he deter- 
mined, as fortune favored him, to leave the bulk of his large 
estate to found some charitable or useful institution. His 
first contribution to the establishment of the College was 
1460,000. Contracts for the erection of the building were 
awarded in 1861, though work was delayed by the war, the 
College was completed and opened in 1865. 



JOHN LORIMER WORDEN, who won distinction in the 
Civil War by the great services he rendered his country, es- 
pecially as commander of the Monitor in its combat with the 
Merrimac, was born at Sing Sing, on March 12, 1818. He en- 
tered the United States Navy in 1834; was made Lieutenant in 
1840; a Captain in 1863; a Commodore in June. 1868, and was 



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an Admiral at the time of his death. He commanded the float- 
ing battery Monitor, which destroyed the Merrimac, on March 
9, 1862. In June last Congress passed a bill directing that the 
name of Olivia Worden, widow of the late John L. Worden, an 
Admiral of the United States Navy, be placed on the pension 
roll, and that she be paid a pension at the rate of |100 per 
month. The widow was the wife of Officer Worden at the time 
he established his title to fame. 



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THE PUBLIC CAKEER OF HON. WILLIAM H. 
ROBERTSON. 



BY HOiSr. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW AND OTHEKS. 



To demoDstrate their appreciation of the man who devoted the 
"best years of his life to their interests, and had become physically 
disabled owing to his activity in that service, friends and neighbors, 
irrespective of political party affiliation, decided, in 1897, to have a 
life-size portrait of Hon. William H. Eobertson painted and hung 
in the County Court House at White Plains, in the court room 
where he so many years presided as County Judge. The portrait 
was paid for by popular subscriptions in small amounts to enable as 
many as possible of the former Judge's friends to contribute and 
share in the testimonial. The painting was presented to ex-Judge 
Eobertson on the evening of April 30, 1898, at the annual dinner 
of the Westchester County Bar Association, given at the Murray 
Hill Hotel, New York city. On this occasion Surrogate Theodore 
H. Silkman, president of the Bar Association, presided. James 
Wood, of Mount Kisco, made the presentation address, and Hon. 
Chauneey M. Depew accepted the gift on behalf of ex- Judge Robert- 
son. The latter was present, but recent illness prevented his re- 
sponding in a manner fitting the occasion, therefore, that pleasant 
duty was discharged by his life-long friend. 

By way of introduction. President Silkman made the following 
remarks: 

Gentlemen of the Bar Association and Guests: As I look upon 
this numerous assemblage, I have in my mind the feeling which 
was very unfortunately expressed by a reform Governor of a Western 
State. He was elected upon a reform ticket, and his first speech — 
in fact, the only speech he ever made — was before the convicts of 
the State prison. He thought that he could make a speech. He 
commenced and, making a desperate effort, he said: "Ladies and 
gentlemen, fellow citizens, my dear friends: I am very glad to see 
so many of you here." (Laughter.) A year has elapsed since our 
last dinner, and, as I look around, it seems to me it must have been 
a very prosperous year for the Bar generally. You all have a pros- 
percu?, happy look. E^ddently, the Judges have taken good care 
of ?he bar of Westchester during the past year. (Applause.) I misR, 
however, one genial face from this board that was with us a year ago 
— that cf the Father of the Bar Association of Westchester County. 
He wae too modest to become its president. He has gone to his 



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fathers. But there is one consolation when we view his career, when 
we reflect upon his legal ability, his generous friendship and his true 
manhood, and that is that the verdict of his friends at the Bar of 
Westchester County can never be reversed by the Court of Last 
Eesort. "Well done, good and faithful servant." Gideon W. Dav- 
enport, one of the foremost members of the bar of Westchester 
County, has passed away from us. 

Gentlemen, during the past year questions of momentous im- 
portance have been before the country. Not within the memory 
of the majority of us have there been before the country questions 
of as great importance to the future of our country as have existed 
in the last few months. The country is to be congratulated upon 
the fact that it is not the men who are admitted to practice law 
before the courts of the coimtry that are the lawyers, but every 
American in the United States to-day is a lawyer and a judge, and 
the stability of our government is largely due to that trait of the 
American citizen, the judicial temperament. 

We have awaited the verdict of the court Avhich has passed 
upon our troubles with patience and conservatism, and have gained 
the admiration of the whole world. 

The Bar Association of Westchester County is too young an 
association to dictate to the Legislature as to what laws it shall pass, 
or to suggest to the justices of the courts what rules they shall make 
in regard to the practice of the law, or what reforms they shall 
adopt. The time will come, however, when we expect that we will 
be a power for good in the land, such as the New York State Bar 
Association and the New York City Bar Association have been in 
the past. But, in a small way, we intend that our association shall 
be felt and heard. Westchester County is a county of historical in- 
cidents. It is a county of history. It is a county where you can 
find Mayflowers, Huguenots, Highlanders and Knickerbockers at 
every crossroads, and the Bar Association of Westchester County 
expects to keep up, so far as it may, the history of Westchester 
County, and your committee, who has had in charge this dinner 
has taken a departure in the matter of menu, as you will observe, 
and I trust that every future committee of the Bar Association 
will follow in their footsteps, so that the menus of the Westchester 
County Bar Association shall become a library which future gen- 
erations shall be proud to possess, and which in the distant future 
may only be purchased for large sums at the book stores where 
rare books are sold. (Applause.) We have undertaken to do honor 
to the citizen?. meml)ers of the Bar of Westchester Countv. who 



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have been true and faithful to the trusts which they have been 
called upon to perform. In this menu you will see that we have 
referred to the first iwo Justices of the Supreme Court called to 
sit fiom Westchester County — men who have acquitted themselves 
well. We have also undertaken to do honor, and we do do honor 
to the foremost lawyer, the foremost friend of every member of the 
Bar of Westchester County, who sits at my right. (Applause and 
cheeri?.) 

Judge Kobertson is a man who was never recreant to a trust 
that he was called upon to perform. (Applause.) He was al- 
ways a friend to the young and old, and he is a friend of every man 
here to-night. (Applause.) He was the first president of our Asso- 
ciation, and it is fitting to-night that we shall do him honor. The 
proceedings of the evening will be continued by our friend, Mr. 
James Wood, of Mount Kisco, whom I now introduce. 

Mr. Wood spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of 
the WestcliLster County Bar Association: Any one who will look 
through this menu and ii];on its pages and see the record of the 
ofiicial positions held by Judge Kobertson will appreciate something 
of the embarrassment that one must feel who undertakes to speak 
of him. Judge Eobertson's life has been so filled with activities; he 
has so impressed public affairs; he has touched and cheered the lives 
of his fellow men in so many places, that upon this occasion multi- 
tudes of memories of noble traits of character and of good deeds 
rush upon our minds. (Applause.) Of Judge Robertson's per- 
sonal qualities, and of his private life, due regard for his own feel- 
ings forbids that we should make anything more than a simple allu- 
sion, but his private character and his official career are matters of 
history, and as such they are public property. As Supervisor of his 
town and Chairman of the County Board; as member of the Assem- 
bly and of the State Senate; as Superintendent of Schools and as 
County Judge for repeated terms, in which his ability and his care- 
ful labor were shown by the fact that his decisions were almost in- 
variably sustained by the higher courts; as member of Congress; 
as Presidential Elector; as Collector of the Port of New York, a 
position unique and memorable because of the fact that it began 
with the filing of his official bond, in which the whole amount was 
covered by two names, and which closed with the percentage of ex- 
pense during his term of office having been smaller than under 
any other official in the history of that great office. In all these 
the public career of William H. Robertson has been without a par- 
allel in the history of our county or of our State, and in the grati- 




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tude of his fellow-citizens for his services in this long-continued and 
varied career, it is also without a precedent. 1 desire to refer in 
the few remarks that I shall make more particularly to his service 
in the Legislature of this State. In the public estimation undoubt- 
edly that has its crowning position in the important place that he 
held so long as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, 
where his hand made its strong impress upon so much of the legis- 
lation of our State. But this service is too well known to need any 
particular reference here. I must ask Judge Eobertson's pardon if, 
wiih a particularity that may be almost unpleasant to him, I refer 
to some acts of his legislative career that illustrates the qualities and 
the character that have controlled his public life. It is a trite and 
commonplace thing to say that a man is honest. Indeed, the friends 
of almost any of us might compliment us with a statement without 
possibly being able to refer to any specific acts of ours to prove it. 
It is easy enough to say good things in a general way, and, therefore, 
I ask Judge Robertson's pardon for what I am about to say, which 
will illustrate his character as no general statement can. Myron H. 
Clark was elected Governor of the State of New York on temper- 
ance issues, and his election was followed by very radical legislation; 
and the production and sale of alcohol were so interfered with that 
it became a very serious injury to many of the manufacturing indus- 
tries of the State. A committee, representing the manufacturers 
of alcohol, went to the Legislature for relief. They presented their 
grievances to Judge Robertson for his consideration, and, after care- 
ful examination, he said: "Gentlemen, I am in favor of your bill, 
and I will do everything I can to secure its passage." A member of 
the committee representing those manufacturers said: "Mr. Robert- 
son, you are in favor of this bill and will support it in every way 
you can. There will be much work for a lawyer to do in connection 
with this matter, and the committee desire that I should retain you 
as special attorney, and here is a retaining fee of $1,000." This 
offer was made to him by a personal friend from his boyhood, whom 
he knew he could trust every day in the year and everywhere. But 
he said to him: "I cannot accept of any retainer for any professional 
service in connection with my legislative duty." 

The case that I have mentioned came within the limited sphere 
of my own personal knowledge. How many hundred other such 
eases there must have been in his protracted legislative career. With 
spotless hands he pushed them all aside. And here, gentlemen, you 
have the exhibition of his character Avhich has secured the unre- 
strained and unbounded confidence of all his fellow men. 



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No man ever dared to propose to infiiience Judge Robertson's 
vote for a consideration! But Judge Eobertson has had an import- 
ant career besides the othcial positions lie has held. His career as a 
lawyer would satisfy the ambition of most men. Perhaps in this 
company Judge Robertson, as a lawyer, would be most criticised 
because of the innumerable cases in which he has violated the pro- 
fessional traditions by rendering efficient, important and devoted 
professional service without any charge therefor. Hundreds of 
families remember this with gratitude, although he may have for- 
gotten them. But, after all, Judge Robertson has probably been most 
widely known as a politician. For over half a century he has been 
a potent influence in this important particular, and in every con- 
vention, from a town caucus to a national convention for the nom- 
ination of candidates for Presidential offices, his influence has been 
felt; indeed, it may be said that his influence at one time and another 
has controlled every one of them. He has controlled the course of 
the national conventions of his party, and rules that before had 
governed those conventions have been set aside because of the 
positions he has taken. In politics he has, indeed, been a 
modern Chevalier Bayard. He has attacked the greatest knights 
whenever he has considered them in the wrong, and he has brought 
them to the dust. 

While a member of the Legislature no opponent ever accused 
hiiu of dishonesty, and in politics no enemy ever yet charged him 
with foul play. A few weeks ago I was in the Republic of Mexico 
and visited the opal mines near Silao, and they showed me a sample 
of opals that charmed me. We looked through a mass of watery 
clearness and purity to a gem beneath the color of the purest and 
brightest gold. So, through the public career of Judge Robertson 
men have looked to the character beneath that has caused them to 
render him the honor and the homage that all men have shown. 
In recognition of this, a number of the friends of Judge Robertson 
have desired that some public expression of this appreciation and 
regard should be made, and they have commissioned me, on their 
behalf, to present to this Bar Association his portrait, to be by you 
held in trust, and to be placed in the court room at White Plains, 
where those who have known him may see him rightly honored, and 
where future generations may look upon the likeness of one who has 
>een an important factor in the county's history. I am sure that 
every one of you will be glad to unite with me, in connection with 
this presentation, in wishing Judge Robertson long years of life, 
■^ith continued health and prosperity. 



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President Silkman: Gentlemen — I doubt whether any of you 
have ever heard of the temptations of Judge Robertson. I certainly 
never have, nor that it was his own neighbor that sought to seduce 
him as a member of the Legislature. The Bar Association of West- 
chester County is to-night to be represented by that old Westchester 
orator who has made Westchester County great in its modern days. 
(Applause.) Westchester was important in Revolutionary history, 
but in modem days it has taken Dr. Depew to keep Westchester 
County prominent before the world. Dr. Depew, on behalf of the 
Bar Association, and on behalf of Judge Robertson, will reply to 
Mr. Wood. 

Mr. Depew, after applause had subsided, said: Mr. Chairman 
and Gentlemen — There are two men in Westchester County for 
whom I have always had profound respect and admiration. One is 
Judge Robertson, and the other James Wood. What Judge Rob- 
ertson has been in resisting temptations of an extraordinary kind 
Mr. Wood has most graphically related, and that Judge Robertson 
and Mr. Wood should be our ideals, notwithstanding the extra- 
ordinary faculty for offering real estate from lofty mountains that 
Mr. Wood has, is one of the most remarkable things in the history of 
Westchester County. (Laughter and applause.) 

You know I feel like a boy to-night. (Laughter).) I feel that 
way much of the time, but especially now when I stand here as 
junior, as I have for thirty years behind Judge Robertson. The 
Judge was the oldest member of the Westchester County Bar when 
I came to it — at least, that was the general impression, and he re- 
lated to me the peculiarities of that Bar and demonstrated that it 
was a very extraordinary institution. In the course of my early 
practice, I had occasion to visit different parts of the State and to 
become familiar with the Bar of the several counties. In the other 
counties there were the usual characteristics of the ordinary lawyer, 
but in Westchester County, at the Westchester County Bar, were the 
eccentricities of genius. I remember once listening to a conversa- 
tion, when in my early days I was calling upon a client in a tenement 
house (laughter), while the discussion was going on upon the roof, 
where Mrs. ]*.uiloney and j\Irs. Barney were hanging out their clothe.s. 
It seems there had been a feud among the 400 of that locality, but 
the severe and rigid etiquette of the house demanded that the cour- 
tesies should prevail upon the roof, and Mrs. ]\Ialoney said to Mrs. 
Baarney: "Good morning, Mrs. Baarney, and how is Mr. Barney, and 
how is Miles and Dennis and Michael and Bridget and Helen? Not 
that I care a damn, but just for conversation." (Laughter.) 



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And so, in my early days at the Westchester Bar, I heard many 
a lawyer address a court or jury when it seemed to me, being a 
young man who was looking for the truth (laughter), that they were 
carrying on that conversation simply for the purpose of talk. (Ap- 
plause.) Judge Goodrich gave me a story to-night, from that vast 
fund he has brought from the Borough of Brooklyn, about an ex- 
plosion that occurred, and it was deputed to one of the friends to 
carry to the bereaved widow the sad tale. He said to her: "Your 
husband was blown up by a can of dynamite." "Well," said she, 
"how serious?" ''Oh!" he said, "his head was foun in one lot, and 
his legs in another lot, and his body in another lot." "Ah!" said 
she, "that was just like Dennis; he was always all over the place." 
(Laughter.) Every one of you know the lawyer to whom I refer. 
He has been at the Westchester Bar for half a century. But there 
is this aboiit the Westchester County Bar, as I have known it for the 
past thirty years, that, while the great lights of the New York Bar 
have been called to the trial of cases in almost every county in the 
State, I think they have been less in evidence at White Plains than 
at any other county seat. It was very seldom that Charles O'Conor 
or Mr. Evarts, taking the lawyers of a past generation, or that Mr. 
Choate, taking him as the leader of the present generation, have 
been called in by the members of our Bar to try or defend their 
cases in the Westchester County Court House. There has been 
that confidence in the members of our Bar that we coult attend to 
our own business and try our own cases far better than any body 
else (Applause), which has prevented these great lights of our pro- 
fession from being called to our assistance. Every Westchester 
County lawyer knows the Westchester County jury is unique, self- 
confident, intelligent, and peculiarly Westchester. (Laughter and 
applause.) 

There isn't a man who has ever tried a dozen cases at White 
Plains who does not know that if a distinguished member of the Bar 
comes in for the other side from an outside county that he has won 
his case before that jury. All he has to do is to stand up before the 
farmer of Westchester County, whose father was a farmer 
of W^estchester, and whose grandfather was a farmer, and 
whose great grandfather was a farmer, and say, "Boys, didn't we pro- 
duce John Jay, and wasn't he Chief Justice of the United States? 
(Applause.) Haven't we produced the greatest lawyers that this 
country has ever known? Why did my friend, the learned counsel 
on the other side, bring Charles O'Conor. or William M. Evarts, 
here? Because he knew that he did not dare trust his case to a 



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Westchester County jury."' That closed the case. I have done it 
myself. (Laughter and applause.) 

Now, I have an alt'ection for Judge Kobertson because, after I 
had tried a lot of cases around in Putnam Valley — (A voice: "Yes, 
that's right!") — My young friend knows how it is himself — you 
pay $5 for a horse from a livery stable and get $10 from your client. 
After 1 had tried them in Yorktown and Somers town, I had reached 
the dignity of having a man bring an action against a client of mine 
in the county court, and with that little one egg, I went down to 
White Plains and boarded with the jury. (Laughter.) I did not 
board with the jury because I wanted to influence that palladium of 
justice (Laughter), but because I could not afford to stay at the 
Orawaupum Hotel. (Laughter.) But, happening there for the 
first time, I discovered why Judge Eobertson was loved by the 
younger members of the Bar, and the secret of his success. I was 
timid, unused to the procedure of the court, and had very little 
confidence in myself. (Judge Silkman laughs.) Well, that was a 
good while ago, Judge. An elderly lawyer sat down beside me and 
proceeded to make a suggestion, which gave me just that sort of 
confidence and knowledge what to do, just that sort of information, 
placing me in harmony with my own self-respect and with the court, 
which made me never forget the older lawyer, who had no jealousy 
for fear a young lawyer would come and take his practice, and 
that man was Judge Eobertson. 

He was a young member of the Legislature. The Know-Noth- 
ing party was in the ascendant. It was peculiarly strong in Judge 
Robertson's district and very hostile to Gov. William H. Seward. 
The Judge saw that a party built on so narrow a platform could not 
live long. William H. Seward was the most distinguished states- 
man of our State and a candidate before the Legislature for United 
States Senator. eH lacked one vote of an election. The Judge's 
advisers told him that if he voted for Seward his political career was 
ended. But he cast that vote. Seward became the leader of the 
Republican party in the nation, as he was one of its founders, and 
the pride of New Y'ork — the Know-Nothing party — died, and Judge 
Robertson both gave a great man to the service of the country and 
assured his own political future. 

Now it is fifty years, gentlemen, since Judge Robertson was first 
a member of the Legislature of the State of New York. Fifty years 
— 1848-1898. Was there ever such a fifty years in the history of the 
world? I sat one evening at a dinner, at Lord Rosebery's, along- 
side of Mr. Gladstone. I saw the "Grand Old Man" at his best, and 



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heard him talk in that marvelous way which was quite as wonderful 
at a private table as it was in the House of Commons, where he 
commanded the attention of the world, and of that conversation, 
runniii<^' through hours, I remember his saying that, as he looked 
back over history, the Greek period, with its art, literature and 
culture; the Eoman period, with its world conquests; the period of 
ihe revival of literature, and all the famous centuries, if he had to 
select the half century in which to live he would choose the one in 
which his public life had been spent, because it was the era of eman- 
cipation, the freedom of the slave, the removal of restrictions bo- 
cause of creed or race, the period of liberty and power for the masses 
of the people. That fifty years has been largely the fifty years 
of the public life of our guest here to-night. He has not the world- 
wide reputation of Mr. Gladstone, but I think I can contribute a 
chapter to the story of the times which will show that he has been 
a factor of great importance in the history of the Republic. 

Lincoln had served one term as President and was to be re- 
nominated for a second term. The war was going badly. There 
was a tremendous revolt in the Eepublican party, a section of which 
liad nominated Fremont as a protest against Lincoln's administra- 
tion. There was a feeling in the North that we had better stop 
fighting and settle. The question was. Could Lincoln be re-elected? 
The Judge and I were delegates. He, as an older counselor, and I, 
as a young politician from the State of New York, went to Wash- 
ington to see the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward. Mr. Seward said: 
"Gentlemen, the Vice-Presidency, unless something is done to pre- 
vent it, will go to Daniel S. Dickinson. If the New York delega- 
tion presents his name, as it intends, he ■wall be nominated. In that 
case, Mr. Lincoln cannot be re-elected. He must have for the 
second place on the ticket with him a Southern man, who has had 
the courage to resist the rebel sentiment of his State, and who has 
risked his life for the Union, and the one man who pre-eminently 
meets that requirement is Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee." Judge 
Robertson and I went back to the convention at Baltimore and in 
our delegation we set up the fight for. Andrew Johnson. "We began 
with nobody but the Judge and myself. Our New York State dele- 
gation met. New York was the pivotal State and the convention 
anxiously waited our decision. The question was debated all night. 
We reached a vote in the morning and the delegation decided, by a 
small majority, that New York would present for Vice-President 
Andrew Johnson. Judge Robertson, more than any one, brought 
about that result, and that action made possible the second election 
of President Lincoln. (Applause.) 



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Evenls make history, and yet the historian knows little of the 
currents which cause the events of which he writes. The National 
Republican Convention of 1880 was called. It was a critical time 
for the Republican party. Every Republican knew that the chance 
was a narrow one whether we won or lost the Presidency, and every 
Republican knew that, unless we won, the party was out of power 
for a long time. The party in our State at that time was in the 
hands of the strongest, most masterful and most tyrannical politician 
who ever controlled its destiny — Roscoe Conkling. (Applause.) 
Roscoe Conkling had determined that New York State should be 
for a third term and for the unit rule. We all know now that, on 
the question of a third term, the election would have been lost. The 
State Convention of our State met to send delegates to the National 
Convention. It was harmonious and unanimous, under the leader- 
ship of Conkling, for a third term and the unit rule, upon which 
the third term depended. That night three men met in the room 
of Judge Robertson to break the unit rule and nominate a President. 
These three men were George Dawson, editor of the Albany Even- 
ing Journal; Judge Robertson, and another. They called in later 
Senator AVagner and Senator Wooden, and that began the cam- 
paign. This movement, started by Judge Robertson in his parlor in 
the Kenmore Hotel at Albany, made James A. Garfield President of 
the United States. Then came the contest for United States Sen- 
ator from New York. It was found that those who supported Gar- 
field were in a minority in the Legislature. Some of his friends 
could get five votes, some four, and some six. It was found that I 
could get twenty-six. I did not want to run for Senator. To run 
for Senator broke up my career. It severed my relations with Mr. 
Vanderbilt and the New York Central Railroad. But Judge Rob- 
ertson, with authority of Garfield and Blaine, said: "Chauncey, you 
have got to run for Senator," and I ran. The contest went on and 
Mr. Piatt received a certain number of votes and Senator Crowley 
received a certain number of votes, and I received a cer- 
tain number of votes, about equally divided. Mr. Conk- 
ling was for Mr. Crowley. Mr. Piatt carried on a masterful 
campaign for himself, and the Judge and I were whooping it up for 
Westchester. One day Mr. Piatt came to me and said: "You can 
never be elected." "Yes, I know that." "Well, suppose you elect 
me." "Well," I said, "we have been crushed in this State for 
twelve years under the tyranny of the Conkling machine. Everj' 
effort has been made to drive me out of politics and Judge Rob- 
crtscn and his friends out of public life. We have made our fight. 



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we have got our resident and don't propose to be crushed. 
Suppose you are elected, will you support President Garfield?" 
"Yes." We went at once to Judge Eobertson's room and the twenty- 
six members of the Legislature who were supporting me came in. 
Mr. Piatt made the same frank statement and the next day he 
^\as elected Senator. President Garfield sent Judge Robertson's 
name to the Senate for Collectorship of the Port of New York. 
Conkling determined to fight the administration on this nomination, 
but 'Mr. Piatt refused to follow him imless the question was sub- 
mitted to the Legislature of New York for fresh instructions. So 
the Senators resigned and the contest was transferred to Albany. 
In this historical crisis Mr. Piatt, as always, stood by his pledge re- 
g -.rd'.ess of the sacrifice. 

The contest for United States Senator of 1882 came on, and the 
Judge and his friends, and especially Mr. Blaine, again pushed me 
into the fight. The result of that contest aroused those animosities 
and that bitter, venomous, and vindictive feeling all over the coun- 
try which led a lunatic to assassinate Garfield, made Arthur Presi- 
dent of the United States, and changed, in a measure, the history 
of the country. Time went on and we met again at Chicago in na- 
Tional convention. Our State, with a unanimity as gratifying as it 
was complimentary to me, for the first time in its history unani- 
mously presented a candidate for President, and that candidate was 
myself. The Judge was delighted. Everybody recognized in the 
convention that it was impossible to elect anybody without New 
York, and New York held the situation. When the Western States 
— Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas^ — came to me and said: "Mr. Depew, 
-svith your relation to the railroad system of the country, and the 
fjinrly for which you have been so long counsel, if you are nom- 
inated we Avill lose Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, though you will be 
elected; but if you will withdraw, we can hold Nebraska, Iowa and 
Ivansas for the Eepublican party for the next half century." I 
yielded to the appeal and retired from the field. My retirement 
gave to my friends, the New York delegation, largely the oppor- 
tunity to nominate the President, and we nominated Benjamin Har- 
rison, and made another and great President of the United States 
(Applause), and, as a commentary upon political prophesy, for the 
next three years Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska went Democratic. 

Once more Westchester came to the front at the National Re- 
publican Convention at Minneapolis. Most of the leaders of the 
party said, "Harrison shall never be re-nominated." Westchester 
County said, "He shall," and he was. So, gentlemen, you see as 



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you look over this fifty yearS;, the history of these great conventions, 
theiie nominations for President, these casualties which have led to 
the assassination of a Chief Magistrate, these things which have 
changed the policy and the course of our government that the citi- 
zen who was a factor of the hrst importance on every occasion was 
our guest here to-night. (Applause.) 

And now, gentlemen, I am an old lawyer, and the Judge is 
an old lawyer, and Judge Goodrich and G. Hilton Scribner 
are old lawyers, and I want to give this piece of advice to you young 
men. You are all lawyers and poHticians. I have been in politics 
since my boyhood. I stumped the State the year 1 graduated. 1 
was a member of the State Convention the year before I was ad- 
mitter to the Bar. I went to that State Convention very young and 
very fresh and opposed to Thurlow Weed, who controlled at that 
time my own party. At three o'clock in the morning, as I got into 
Syracuse, I was introduced to Thurlow Weed, who shook hands 
with me as if I had been an old and life-long friend, and when I met 
him at noon the next day he recognized me and recalled when we 
met, and told me flattering things about friends in Westchester, and 
I was captured. Thurlow Weed was a political leader of his party 
in this State for thirty years, and only lost his leadership when he 
became selfish and tried to limit his advisers and limit the people 
who should be the representatives of the organization and the recip- 
ients of its rewards. 

I have seen the leadership of Dean E.ichmond in the Democratic 
party, which lasted for nearly the same period and was conducted on 
precisely the same lines as Thurlow Weed conducted his. I have 
leen through the leadership of Eeuben E. Fenton and of Roscoe 
Conkling, but I have seen in my forty years in politics this, which 
is the characteristic of the success of Judge Robertson, who was the 
leader in his district for forty years, that a leader only retains power 
who keeps cultivating the young; that leader only succeeds who, see- 
ing ability, is not jealous of it, but, in its recognition, secures the 
loyal support of youth, which is enthusiasm without bargains or 
conditions. Whenever a young man displayed conspicuous faculty 
^or public life in Mr. Weed's time, Mr. Weed sent for him and said: 
"Young man, you have a career before you; what can I do for you?'' 
And he would put around that young man the conditions which 
placed him in the Legislature, made him County Judge or District 
Attorney, carried him to National and State conventions, and that 
man would sacrifice his life for Thurlow Weed. That same course 
was the pfrencth of James G. Blaine. What was the secret of the 



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loss of Conkling's power? It was, that while he was one of the 
greatest in intellect, and as an orator who ever led a party, he had 
a singular jealousy of rising talent, and, whenever a man became dis- 
tinguished at the bar, or as District Attorney, or in the Assembly or 
Senate, Conkling decreed his destruction and he disappeared from 
public life — the macliine eliminated him. The result has been that, 
while New England is rich in eminent ability in the Senate and 
House of Representatives, while the West is rich in men who are 
leaders of public opinion. New York has not contributed in twenty 
years a statesman to pubhc hfe who has won a national reputation 
imless he won it before Conkling's greatest power. So, gentlemen, 
1 say to you, never be jealous, because jealousy never wins. Never 
try to climb upon the hectacomb of those you have slain, because 
such men come to life and finally they will murder you. Eesurrec- 
tion is the faith and practice of politics. But, if you have power, 
if you have the elements of leadersliip, recognize ability that will 
help and help it, and then you will have continuing power and 
fame, and all that makes public life worth the living. Such is the 
tribute we pay to the successful and extraordinary fifty years of the 
public services of our guest. (Applause and cheers.) 



WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON was born in Bedford on October 
10, 1823, a son of Henry and Huldah (Fanton) Robertson. He 
was educated at the Union Academy in his native town. He subse- 
quently taught school in the towns of Bedford and Lewisboro. He 
studied law in the office of Judge Robert S. Hart, in Bedford 
Village, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1853 he formed 
a partnership with Odle Close, also of Bedford, under the firm 
name of Close & Robertson. They opened an oflQce in Mott Haven 
in the town of Morrisania. After the Civil War they removed their 
office to White Plains. When only seventeen years of age, in 1840, 
in the Harrison campaign, Mr. Robertson took an active interest in 
politics on the Whig side. He cast his first vote in 1844 for Henry 
Clay, the Whig candidate for President. In 1845 he was elected 
Town Superintendent of Schools. He served four years as Super- 
visor of his town and two years as chairman of the Board of Super- 
visors. He was first elected a member of Assembly in 1848, and 
re-elected in 1849; in 1853 he was elected a State Senator; in 1855 
he was elected County Judge and was twice re-elected, serving 
twelve years in that office; was elected several times as a Republican 
Presidential Elector; in 1866 he was elected a Representative in 
Congress; he was again elected a State Senator in 1871 and was re- 



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elected four times; he was President pro tern, of the Senate for sev- 
eral years. In 1872 it was generally understood that Mr. Robertson 
would be the RepubHcan nominee for Governor of the State. The 
unexpected happened, the name of Gen. John A. Dix was suddenly 
sprung when the convention met, and the strong appeal which was 
made in behalf of the General had the effect of giving to the latter 
the nomination. In 1876 Mr. Eobertson was appointed by President 
Grant as one of a commission of three to visit Florida and supervise 
the counting of the votes cast in that State for the office of Presi- 
dent. In 1879 he was again before the Republican State Convention 
as a candidate for the Gubernatorial nomination, but he found the 
combination, as on the former occasion, too strong against him. He 
has represented his Congressional district, as a delegate, in every 
Republican National Convention for a period of nearly forty years. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, in his address, published in connection 
herewith, refers to Mr. Robertson's influence in national affairs, and 
to the latter's appointment as Collector of the Port of New York 
in 1881. In 1887, after his retirement from the New York Custom 
House, he was again elected a State Senator, and re-elected, serving 
until 1892. Though he continued to take an active interest in 
politics, and was the recognized Republican leader in Westchester 
County, he held no public office after 1891, preferring to devote 
himself to his large law practice. His present sickness compels his 
retirement. Mr. Robertson never pretended to be a military man, 
nor did he lay claim to a military title, yet when the Civil War com- 
menced he was inspector of the old Seventh Brigade of the New 
York State militia, and in 1862. acted as chairman of the committee 
to raise and organize troops in the Eighth Senatorial District, ap- 
pointed by Gov. Morgan. He has been a Republican since the or- 
ganization of that party. Mr. Robertson was married in 1865 to 
Miss Mary E. Ballard, daughter of Hon. Horatio Ballard, of Cort- 
land, N. Y. The present place of residence of Mr. Robertson is at 
New Katonah. in this county. 



100 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



As Secretaries of State. 



The office of Secretary of State of the State of New York was 
held foTir years by residents of this county, as follows: 
Chauncey M. Depew, of Peekskill, 1864-65. 
G. Hilton Scribner, of Yonkers, 1871-72. 



County Judges of the County. 

The persons named iu the following list, before the year 18-16, 
were designated Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Those 
mentioned after 181:6 were County Judges, the Constitution of 1816 
having changed the title of the officer and provided for his election 
by the people. The term of office is six years; the salary, as fixed 
by a special act of the Legislature, passed February 25, 1890, is 
$6,000 per year. The office has been held by: 

John Pell, Pelham, 1688 to 1695. 

Caleb Fleatiicote, Mamaroneck, 1695 to 1721. 

Wilham Willett, Harrison, 1721 to 1732. 

Frederick Philipse, Yonkers, 1732 to 1734. 

Israel Honeywell, Yonkers, 1734 to 1737. 

Israel Honeywell, Yonkers, 1740 to 1743. 

Samuel Purdy, Rye, 1734 to 1737. 

Samuel Purdy, Rye, 1740 to 1752. 

John Thomas, Rye, 1737 to 1739. 

John Thomas, Rye, 1765 to 1766. 

John Ward, East Chester, 1737 to 1739. 

John Ward, East Chester, 1752' to 1754. 

Lewis Morris, Jr., Morrisiania, 1738 to 1739. 

William Leggett, West Farms, 1752 to 1754. 

Nathaniel Underhill, Westchester, 1755 to 1774. 

Jonathan Fowler, North Castle, 1769 to 1771. 

Jonathan Fowler, North Castle, 1773 to 1775. 

Caleb Fowler, North Castle, 1772 to 1776. 

No eessions of this court were held between the years 1776 and 
1778. 

Robert Graham, White Plains, 1778 to 1784. 

Stephen Ward, East Chester, 1784 to 1791. 

Ebenezer Lockwood, Poundridge, 1791 to 1794. 

Jonathan G. Tompkins, Scarsdale, 1794 to 1797. 

Ebenezer Purdy, North Salem, 1797 to 1802. 

Elijah Lee, Yorktown, Januan^ 20. 1802 to March 29. 1802. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 101 

John Watts, New Kochelle, 1802 to 1807. 
Caleb Tompkins, Scarsdale, 1807 to 1820. 
William Jay, Bedford, 1820 to 1823. 
Caleb Tompkins, Scarsdale, 1823 to 1846. 
Robert S. Hart, Bedford, 1846 to 1847. 
Albert Lockwood, Sing Sing, 1847 to 1851. 
John W. Mills, White Plains, 1851 to 1856. 
William H. Eobertson, Katonah, 1856 to 1868. 
Eobert Cochran, White Plains, 1868 to 1872. 
Silas D. Gifford, Morrisania, 1872 to 1884. 
Isaac N". Mills, Mount Vernon, 1884 to 1896. 
Smith Lent, Sing Sing, 1896, now acting. 
Robert S. Hart took the oath of office as "First Judge" on April 
20, 1846. 



Surrogates of the County. 

Like other officers. Surrogates were appointed prior to 1846. 
In accordance with a special act of the Legislature, passed April 10, 
1833, the office and court of the Surrogate was established in the 
county building at White Plains on May 10, 1833. The first elected 
Surrogate in this county entered upon the discharge of his official 
duties January 1, 1848. The term of office of Surrogate is now six 
years. The salary is $6,000 per year, as fixed by an act of the Leg- 
islature, passed May 27, 1889. The office has been held in this 
county by the following named residents, in the years given: 

Gilbert Willett, Harrison, 1730 to 1754. 

John Barton, Westchester, 1754 to 1761. 

Caleb Fowler, North Castle, 1761 to 1766. 

David Baton, North Castle, 1766 to 1778. 

Richard Hatfield, Westchester, 1778 to 1787. 

Philip Pell, Pelham, 1787 to 1796. 

Elias Newman, 1796 to 1800. 

Samuel Youngs, Mount Pleasant, 1800 to 1802. 

Edward Thomas, Rye, 1802 to 1807. 

Samuel Youngs, Mount Pleasant, 1807 to 1808. 

Ezra Lockwood, Poundridge, 1808 to 1810. 

Samuel Youngs, Mount Pleasant, 1810 to 1811. 

Ezra Lockwood, Poundridge, 1811 to 1813. 

Samuel Youngs, Mount Pleasant, 1813 to 1815. 

Henry White, Yorktown, 1815 to 1819. 

Samuel Youngs, Mount Pleasant, 1819 to 1821. 



102 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

Ebenezer WMte, Jr., Yorktown, 1821 to 1828. 
Jonathan Ward, East Chester, 1828 to 1840. 
Alexander H. Wells, Sing Sing, 1840 to 1844. 
Frederick J. Coffin, Somers, 1844 to 1848. 
Lewis C. Piatt, White Plains, 1848 to 1856. 
Kobert H. Coles, New Rochelle, 1856 to 1862. 
Silas D. Gilford, Morrisania, appointed in place of R. H. Coles, 
deceased, 1862 to 1863. 

John W. Mills, White Plains, 1863 to 1871. 
Owen T. Coffin, Peeksldll, 1871 to 1895. 
Theodore H. Silkman, Yonkers, 1895, now acting. 



CLEKKS OF THE SURROGATE'S COURT. 

An act of the Legislature, passed in 1863, authorized the Surro- 
gate of Westchester County to appoint a Clerk to the Surrogate's 
Court in and for Westchester County. The salary attached to the 
office at the present time is $2,500 per annum. Pollowing are 
the names of persons who have held the office, their place of resi- 
dence, and the years in which they have served: 

Charles H. Earl, White Plains, 1863 to 1867. 

David Verplanck, White Plains, 1867 to 1871. 

William M. Skinner, White Plains, 1871 to 1889. 

Francis X. Donoghue, Yonkers, 1889 to 1892. 

H. P. Griffin, White Plains, 1892 to 1895. 

Leslie Sutherland, Yonkers, 1895, now acting. 

Prior to the creation of the office of Clerk, Randolph Merritt, 
Benjamin S. Dick, John P. Jenkins and Charles W. Little acted at 
times as Clerk in the office of the Surrogate, under the several early 
Surrogates. 

In the present Surrogate's office, besides the Clerk to the court, 
there are employed a Record Clerk, who receives a salary of $1,000 
per annum; a Recording Clerk, at $840; an Assistant Recording 
Clerk, at $660; an Index and Accounting Clerk, at $750. 

Regular sessions of the Surrogate's Court are held at White 
Plains on Monday and Saturday of every week; special sessions are 
hv Id at Yonkers every Wednesday, and at Peekskill on fourth Thurs- 
day of each month, excepting on legal holidays and during the 
month of August. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 103 



Justices of Sessions. 



Following are names and addresses of persons who were elected 
and served as Justices of Sessions in this county, together with the 
years in which they acted, since 1858. The term of office was one 
year. While two had to be elected, no political party was permitted 
to name for the office more than one candidate; for this reason a nom- 
ination on the ticket of either of the two principal political parties 
was equivalent to an election. The office was abolished by Consti- 
tutional amendment, taking effect January 1, 1896: 

Samuel Tompkins, Yorktown, 1858-59. 

WilHam Miller, Mount Vernon, 1858 to 1862, 1865-66. 

James Parker, Morrisania, 1860-61-63. 

L. Leonce Coudert, Pelham, 1863. 

James Williamson, South Salem, 1863-64. 

Thomas J. Byrne, Westchester, 1864-65. 

David K. Conklin, Peekskill, 1866-67-68. 

Myron B. Silkman, Bedford, 1867 to 1877. 

Stephen Billings, Cortlandt, 1869, 1886. 

WilHam C. Howe, Sing Sing, 1870 to 1886. 

Cyrus Lawrence, 2d, Lewisboro, 1877 to 1881. 

James S. See, North Tarrytown, 1881-82. 

John H. Baxter, Peekskill, 1883 to 1891. 

Hanford M. Henderson, Port Chester, 1887-88, 1891. 

Henry J. Carey, City Island, 1889. 

John J. Crennan, New Eochelle, 1890. 

John C. Holmes, Cross Eiver, 1891-92-93. 

James C. Travis, 1891. 

Walter H. Jones, Yorktown, 1892. 

James Hyatt, Somers, 1893-94. 

Walter H. Haight, New Castle, 1894. 

Edward B. Kear, Yorktown, 1895 to 1896. 

Robert J. Bellew, Tuckahoe, 1895 to 1896. 



District Attorneys in the County. 

The office of District Attorney was created in this State on 
April 4, 1801, and a certain number was apportioned to districts 
composed of several counties. In 1818, by an act of the Legislature, 
each county was made a district. Until 1846, District Attorneys 
were appointed by Courts of General Sessions in each county; sub- 
sequently they have been elected by the people, for a term of three 



104 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

years each. By an act of April 14, 1852, Boards of Supervisors were 
authorized to make the office of District Attorney a salaried office 
and fix the salary thereof. The salary of the office at present is 
$6,000 per year, the amount fixed by the County Board of Super- 
visors in 1890. Since 1818 the office has been filled in this county 
by the following named residents: 

Eobert P. Lee, Yorktown, 1819 to 1820. 

Aaron Ward, Sing Sing, 1820 to 1823. 

William Nelson, Peekskill, 1823 to 1845. 

Kichard K. Voris, Sing Sing, 1845 to 1848. 

William W. Scrugham, Yonkers, 1848 to 1851. 

Edward Wells, Peekskill, 1851 to 1857. 

William H. Pemberton, Mount Vernon, 1857 to 1863. 

Pelham L. McClellan, Mount Vernon, 1863 to 1866. 

John S. Bates, Bedford, 1866 to 1869. 

Jackson 0. Dykman, White Plains, 1869 to 1872. 

Daniel C. Briggs, Peekskill, 1872 to 1875. 

Eobert Cochran, White Plains, 1875 to 1878. 

Nelson H. Baker, Sing Sing, 1878 to 1890. 

William P. Piatt, White Plains, 1890 to 1896. 

George C. Andrews, Tarrytown, 1896, now acting. 



ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTOKNEYS. 

At the present time the District Attorney is allowed one 
deputy, to which the county pays a salary of $2,000 per annum. 
Prior to 1875 the business of the office of District Attorney did not 
require a regular lawyer assistant; in the latter year the office of 
AsBistant District Attorney was created. The office has been filled 
by the following named persons, terms commencing on the years 
stated: 

David Verplanck, White Plains, 1875. 

Frederick E. Weeks, Tarrytown, 1896. 

Frank M. Buck,* Mount Vernon, 1898. 

*Frank M. Buck was appointed May 3, 1898, to succeed Fred- 
erick E. Weeks who resigned that he might accompany his regiment 
and take part in the war with Spain. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 105 

County Treasurers. 

In the early history of the county County Treasurers were 
appointed by Boards of Supervisors, and were usually those who 
also acted as Clerks of that Board. Under the State Constitution 
of 1846 County Treasurers are elected by the people. The salary 
of the office at present is $5,000 per annum and fees. Those 
who served in the position in this county since 1846 were: 

Eiisha Horton, White Plains, 1849 to 1853. 

Eobert Palmer, Scarsdale, 1852 to 1855. 

Leeman B. Tripp, Tarrytown, 1855 to 1858. 

Henry Willett, White Plains, 1858 to 1862. 

Gilbert S. Lyon, White Plains, appointed in place of Willet, re- 
signed 1862; re-elected and served until 1867. 

N. Holmes Odell, Tarrytown, 1867 to 1876. 

George W. Davids, New Rochelle, 1876 to 1879. 

David Cromwell, East Chester, 1879 to 1891. 

John Hoag, Sing Sing, 1891 to 1897. 

Francis M. Carpenter, Mount Kisco, 1897, now acting. 



DEPUTY COUNTY TREASUREES. 

An act of the Legislature authorizes the appointment of a 
Deputy County Treasurer. The salary of the office is $3,000 per 
annum. By appointment, the following named persons have 
served in the position in the years here mentioned: 

John M. Rowell, White Plains, 1858 to 1878. 

Romain Vaughn, Port Chester, 1878 to 1879. 

James H. Jenkins, Mount Vernon, 1879 to 1880. 

Thomas R. Hodge, Eastchester, 1880 to 1891. 

A. L. Babcock, Sing Sing, 1891 to 1897. 

Samuel C. Miller, White Plains, 1897, now acting. 



County Clerks of the County. 

The office of County Clerk was one of the first created in liie 
State. Prior to 1859, the County Clerk, in this county, besides dis- 
charging the regular duties now attached to the office, performed 
the duties now delegated to the County Register of Deeds. The 
term of office, at present, is three years, and the Clerk is compen- 
sated by fees received. The position has been filled in this county 
by the following named persons, in the years here given: 



106 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



John Kyder, Cortlandt, 1684. 

Joseph Lee, Yorktown, 1684 to 1688. 

Edward Collier, Sing Sing, 1688 to 1691. 

Joseph Lee, Yorktown, 1691 to 1698. 

Benjamin Collier, Sing Sing, 1698 to 1707 

John Clapp, White Plains, 1707 to 1711. 

Daniel Clark, Peekskill, 1711 to 1722. 

William Forster, Westchester, 1722 to 1746. 

Benjamin Nicoll, Scarsdale, 1746 to 1760. 

John Barstow, Pelham, 1760 to 1777. 

Eichard Hatfield, White Plains, 1777 to 1802. 

Thomas Ferris, Westchester, 1802 to 1808. 

Elijah Crawford, White Plains, 1808 to 1810. 

Thomas Ferris, Westchester, 1810 to 1811. 

Ehjah Crawford, White Plains, 1811 to 1813. 

Thomas Ferris, Westchester, 1813 to 1815. 

Elijah Crawford, White Plains, 1815 to 1820. 

William Eeqna, Yonkers, 1820 to 1821. 

Nehemiah S Bates, Bedford, 1821 to 1828. 

Nathaniel Bayles, Tarrytown,, 1828 to 1834. 

John. H. Smith, Bedford, 1834 to 1839. 

Chauncey Smith, Bedford, appointed in place of John H. 

Smith, deceased, 1839 to 1840. 
Charles A. Purdy, White Plains, 1840 to 1843. 
Munson I. Lockwood, Poundridge, 1843 to 1849. 
Eobert E. Oakley, White Plains, 1849 to 1856. 
John P. Jenkins, White Plains, 1856 to 1859. 
Hiram P. Eowell, White Plains, 1859, and died in office in 1867. 
Chauncey M. Depew, Peekskill, was appointed May 25, 1867, 

to fill vacancy, bnt declined to qualify. 
William W. Pierson, Sing Sing, was appointed July 22 and 

served imtil the end of the year. 
J. Malcolm Smith, Sing Sing, 1868 to 1877. 
John M. Eowell, White Plains, 1877 to 1883. 
James F. "D. Crane, Yonkers, 1883 to 1886. 
John M. Digney. Yonkers, 1886 to 1896. 
Leverett F. Crumb, Peekskill, 1896, now acting. 



DEPUTY COUNTY CLERKS. 



The following are the names and addresses of persons appointed 
to the position of Deputy County Clerk since the office of County 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 107 

Clerk became elective, under the Constitution of 184b, together 
with the years in which they served: 

Chauncey Smith, Bedford, 1847 to 1848. 

John P. Jenkins, White Plains, 1848 to 1849. 

William H. Pemberton, Mount Vernon, 1849 to 1853. 

Josiah S. Mitchell, White Plains, 1853 to 1855. 

Hiram P. Powell, White Plains, 1855 to 1856. 

Stephen S. Marshall, White Plains, 1856 to 1859. 

John M. Powell, White Plains, 1859 to 1867. 

James H. Moran, White Plains, 1867 to 1868. 

Wright Banks, White Plains, 1868 to 1869. 

Walter T. Mills (special), White Plains, 1868 to 1883. 

Joseph H. Lewis, White Plains, 1869 to 1877, 1880 to 1883. 

Peter B. Vermilya, White Plains, 1877 to 1880. 

Franklin Couch, Peekskill, 1883 to 1887. 

John M. Digney (special), Yonkers, 1883 to 1886. 

M. James Mooney (special), Yonkers, 1883 to 1896. 

Benoni Piatt, White Plains, 1887, to 1896. 

Daniel P. Townsend, Port Chester, 1896. 

M. James Mooney, Yonkers, 1896 to 1897, died in office. 

Charles J. F. Decker, Croton Falls, 1897, now acting. 

Eobert Coward (special), Port Chester, 1897, now acting. 



Oountv Eegisters of Deeds. 

The duties of Register were performed by the County Clerk 
prior to 1858. The act, providing for the election of a Register of 
Deeds in and for Westchester County, was passed by the Legislature 
on April 16, 1858. The term of office is three years; the Register 
is compensated by fees received. Following is given the names and 
addresses of persons who have held the position, together with the 
years in which they served: 

John P. Jenkins, White Plains, 1859 to 1862. 

Stephen S. Marshall, White Plains, 1862 to 1871. 

James M. Bard, Mount Pleasant, 1871 to 1874. 

Benjamin S. Dick (acting), White Plains, 1874. 

Henry B. Archer, Yonkers, appointed Oct. 12, 1874, in place 
of James M. Bard, who died in office. 

Theodore Pine, New Rochelle, 1875 to 1878. 

Charles 0. Banks, New Rochelle, 1878 to 1881. 

Joseph 0. Miller, Mount Kisco, 1881 to 1890. 

John I. Storms, Peekskill, 1890 to 1893. 



108 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

William J. Graney, Dobbs Ferry, 1893 to 1896. 
Thomas R. Hodge, Mount A^ernon, 1896, now acting. 



DEPUTY COUNTY EEGISTERS OF DEEDS. 

Persons who have held the office of Deputy County Register, 
in the County of Westchester, since creation of the office by act of 
April 16, 1858, to date, together with their addresses and the year 
of con)mencement of their term, are as follows: 

Stephen S. Marshall, White Plains, 1859 to 1862. 

Daniel H. Little, Greenburgh, 1863 to 1865. 

Charles E. Johnson, Mount Vernon, 1865 to 1868. 

John H. Hauptman, Morrisania, 1868 to 1871. 

William H. Peck, Sing Sing, 1871 to 1874. 

Benjamin S. Dick, MQiite Plains, 1874 to 1875. 

John T. Underbill, Tuckahoe, 1875 to 1878. 

Theodore Pine, New Rochelle, 1878. 

James H. Moran, White Plains, 1878 to 1879. 

S. C. Van Tassel, Yonkers, 1879 to 1881. 

B. Prank Palmer, Larchmont, 1881 to 1890, 1893 to 1896. 

Douglas Murray, White Plains, (Special Deputy), 1887-88-89. 

Ca.leb W. Storm, Tarrytown, 1890 to 1893. 

Samuel C. Miller, AVhite Plains, 1896 to 1897. 

William J. Guinand, Mount Kisco, 1897, now acting. 



Sheriffs of the County. 

The following named residents acted, in years given, as the 
appointed or elected Sheriffs of the county, from the date of the 
county's erection. Those mentioned prior to 1846 were appointed 
by the Governor and Council, as were other county officers. Those 
chosen after 1846 were elected by the people. The term of office at 
present is three years, and the salary $10,000 per annum. 

Benjamin Colher, Sing Sing, 1683 to 1689. 

Thomas Statham, Westchester, 1689 to 1691. 

Benjamin Collier, Sing Sing, 1691 to 1698. 

John Shute, East Chester, 1698 to 1699. 

Edmund Ward, East Chester, 1699 to 1700. 

Jeremiah Fowler, North Castle, 1700 to 1701. 

Isaac Dunham, Westchester, 1701 to 1702. 

Roger Barton, NeAv Rochelle, 1702 to 1709. 

Israel Honeywell. Jr.. Yonkers. 1709 to 1723. 



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Gilbert Willett, Harrison, 1723 to 1727. 
JacobuB Van Dyke, Westchester, 1727 to 1730. 
Gilbert Willet, Harrison, 1730 to 1733. 
Nicholas Cooper, Westchester, 1733 to 1737. 
Isaac Willet, Harrison, 1737 to 1767. 
Lewis Graham, Westchester, 1767 to 1769. 
John DeLancy, Westchester, 1769 to 1770. 
James DeLancy, Westchester, 1770 to 1777. 
John Thomas, Jr., Eye, 1777 to 1778. 
John Thomas, Eye, 1778 to 1781. 
Jesse Hnnt, Eye, 1781 to 1785. 
John Thomas, Eye, 1785 to 1787. 
John Pell, Pelham, 1787 to 1788. 
Thomas Thomas, Eye, 1788 to 1792. 
Samuel Haight, Westchester, 1792 to 1796. 
Elias Newman, Bedford, 1796 to 1799. 
William Barker, Scarsdale, 1799 to 1802. 
Jonathan Ward, East Chester, 1802 to 1806. 
Daniel Delevan, Sing Sing, 1806 to 1807. 
Joseph Hatfield, Westchester, 1807 to 1808. 
St. John Constant, Cortlandt, 1808 to 1810. 
Elijah Ward, New Eochelle, 1810 to 1811. 
St. John Constant, Cortlandt, 1811 to 1812. 
Lyman Cook, Cortlandt, 1812 to 1815. 
Zabnd June, North Salem, 1815 to 1818. 
Lyman Cook, Cortlandt, 1818 to 1821. 
Ward B. Howard, Cortlandt, 1821 to 1823. 
John Townsend, Pelham, 1823 to 1826. 
Allen Macdonald, Westchester, 1826 to 1829. 
David D. Webbers, Yorktown, 1829 to 1832. 
Aaron Brown, Somers, 1832 to 1835. 
Joseph H. Anderson, Harrison, 1835 to 1838. 
Amos T. Hatfield, Westchester, 1838 to 1841. 
Joseph Lyon, Pelham, 1841 to 1844. 
Wilham H. Briggs, Cortlandt, 1844 to 1847. 
James M. Bates, Bedford, 1847 to 1850. 
Benjamin D. Miller, Yorktown, 1850 to 1853. 
Alsop H. Lockwood, Poundridge, 1853 to 1856. 
Daniel H. Littel, Greenburgh, 1856 to 1859. 
William Bleakley, Cortlandt, 1859 to 1862. 
Lemon B. Tripp. North Castle, 1862 to 1865. 
Darius Lvon. Mount Vernon. 1865 to 1868. 



no MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



John Bussing, Fordham, 1868 to 1871. 
Kobert F. Brundage, Port Chester, 1871 to 1874. 
Ziba Carpenter, White Plains, 1874 to 1877. 
Robert F. Brundage, Port Chester, 1877 to 1880. 
James C. Courter, Yonkers, 1880 to 1883. 
Stephen D. Horton, Peekskill, 1883 to 1886. 
John Duffy, Port Chester, 1886 to 1889. 
Frank G. Schirmer, White Plains, 1889 to 1892. 
John Duffy, White Plains, 1892 to 1895. 
Addison Johnson, Port Chester, 1895 to 1898. 
William Molloy, New Eochelle, 1898, now acting. 



UNDER SHERIFFS. 

The following named persons were duly appointed by the sev- 
eral Sheriffs of the county to serve in the capacity of Under Sheriff, 
since the adoption of the Constitution of 1846, terms commencing 
on the dates here given: 

Jacob Foshay, White Plains, 1847. 

John T. Yoe, Sing Sing, 1850. 

Andrew Deveau, New Eochelle, 1856. 

Charles W. Little, Greenburgh, 1857. 

J. Holly Piatt, Sing Sing, 1859. 

John W. Young, White Plains, 1862. 

Charles W. Little, Greenburgh, 1865. 

Amos R. Clark, North Tarrytown, 1868. 

Stephen A. Marshall, Port Chester, 1871. 

Walter H. Haight, Chappaqua, 1874. 

Josiah H. Macy, Rye, 1875. 

Gilbert S. Lyon, White Plains, 1877. 

Jared V. Peck, Port Chester, 1879. 

Jacob Read, Yonkers, 1880. 

Henry C. Odell, Peekskill, 1883. 

William Ryan, Port Chester, 1886. 

William H. Lyon, Bedford, 1889. 

Howard H. Pugsley, Peekskill, 1892. 

William L. Ward, Port Chester, 1895. 

John McNally, Sing Sing, 1898. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 1H 

County Superintendents of the Poor. 

Superintendents of the Poor were appointed, according to act 
of the Legislature passed April 35, 1833, at a joint meeting of 
Supervisors and Judges of the Court of Common Fleas. An act was 
passed May 6, 1845, authorizing the Board of Supervisors of West- 
chester County to appoint Superintendents of the Poor. This lat- 
ter act was repealed by an act passed May 12, 1846, when provision 
was made for their election by the people. From 1846 to 1886 
the county elected three Superintendents of the Poor, one every 
year, the term of each being three years. Since 1886 only one Super- 
intendent has been elected, for a term of three years, and he dis- 
charges the duties formerly performed by the three. The present 
salary of the office is $2,500 per annum. Following is a list of per- 
sons who have been elected and served in the office since 1850, to- 
gether with the years in which their terms commenced: 

John D. Hains, Bedford, 1851, 1854, 1857. 

Henry W. Hart, Yorktown, 1854, 1857. 

Abraham Yerks, Unionville, 1854. 

Nehemiah S. Adams, Poundridge, 1856. 

Daniel K. Sherwood, Sing Sing, 1857, 1860. 

William Lockwood, Poundridge, 1859, 1866. 

Henry W. Purdy, Croton Landing, 1860, 1863. 

Abraham R. Strang, Yorktown, 1862, 1865, 1868, 1871. 

John H. Garrison, Morrisania, 1864. 

Edward K. Mott, Tarrytown, 1866, 1869. 

George Cooper, Westchester, 1867, 1870, 1873, 1876. 

John Kuester, Yonkers, 1872. 

Adam Palm, Jr., Mount Vernon, 1874, 1877. 

William Mabie, Peekskill, 1875. 

William J. Ackerly, Chappaqua, 1878, 1881. 

Norman K. Shears, Yonkers, 1879. 

George Fisher, Tuckahoe, 1880. 

James E. Hoyt, Bedford, 1881,* 1882, 1884. 

Joseph W. Tompkins, Tarrytown, 1882. 1887. 

Aaron F. Read, North Castle, 1883. 

Henry Esser, Mount Vernon, 1890, 1896. 

Miles Adams, Poundridge, 1893. 



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OARE OF WESTOHESTEE COUNTY'S POOR. 



The WestcheBter County Almshouse, located at East View, in 
the town of Mount Pleasant, is, beyond dispute, at the pre&ent 
time one of the best-managed institutions of the kind in the State. 
This shelter for the county's homeless poor, with its connecting- 
buildings, is pleasantly situated in one of the most attractive of 
valleys, protected by picturesque hills and surrounded by land views 
ever pleasing to the eye, contributing to make the lives of the un- 
fortunate wards of the county as bearable and happy as; is possible. 
To the observance of the first rule of the institution, cleanliness, 
is due principally, the general good health of the inmates; sick 
people found here are those who were sick when introduced, as few 
well persons are taken ill after arrival. 

On April 1, 1828, the County Almshouse was established and 
opened for business on its present site, the locality then being 
known as Knapp's Corners. Isaac Coutant was duly installed as its 
first keeper. Prior to 1838 each town maintained an almshouse 
and cared for its own poor. 

During the year ending April 1, 1896, the Almshouse con- 
tained 417 inmates, of whom 331 were men, 78 were women and 
18 were babes. During the year ending April 1, 1897, there were 
403 inmates, of which number 397 were men, 83 were women and 33 
were children under tw^o years of age. During the year ending 
April 1, 1898, there were 447 inmates, of which number 352 were 
men, 79 were women and 16 were children under two years of age. 
During the year just ended the hospital accommodated 105 per- 
sons, 70 of whom were men and 35 were women, which number is 
about ten per cent, increase over previous year. Under present 
poor laws each town in the county is entitled to one Overseer of 
the Poor. An Overseer of the Poor is permitted by law to expend 
not over $10 not oftener than three times a year in assisting and 
relieving the immediate wants of a destitute family; if further as- 
sistance is necessary for same family, the said Overseer of the Poor 
shall apply to the County Superintendent of the Poor for authority 
to render further financial aid, and if said Superintendent finds. 
on investigation, that the family for whom assistance is asked can 
be removed to the Almshouse, such removal will have to be accom- 
plished; in case removal is impossible, the Superintendent may grant 
further financial assistance by issuing over his signature a certificate 
to the County Treasurer, or by endorsing his approval on an order 
for money made by Overseer of the Poor. The poor order? issued 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 113 

by Overseers of the Poor are paid by the County Treasurer on pres- 
entation of the order, together with a bill, veriiied by oath, showing 
goods delivered under said order. The number of orders that can 
be issued in a town or city is not limited. 

The present County Superintendent of the Poor, Henry Esser, 
when he first assumed charge of the Almshouse, in 1890, inaug- 
urated the custom of providing the inmates with three regular meals 
a day, displacing the rule of only giving them two meals a day, 
omitting supper. Instead of every person, men as well as women, 
washing their own clothing, as formerly, Mr. Esser introduced a 
system by which the clothing of all the inmates is washed by most 
improved steam machinery. A three-story concrete building was 
erected in 1890 for the express use of the laundry. Work in the 
laundry, as well as at road and wall building, farming, carpentering, 
etc., is done by able-bodied inmates, without other payment than 
their support. The renovation of the furniture in the house, the 
erection of a bath-house, stahles and other outhouses, done during 
Mr. Esser's administration, were effected principally by pauper 
labor, saving much expense to the county. The buildings are 
heated by the hot water system. The institution has a fire depart- 
ment system of its own. Kerosene oil is now being used for illumin- 
ating purposes, but it is expected that electric lights will soon be 
introduced to lessen expense and the chance of a conflagration and 
great loss. 

No person afflicted with contagious disease is admitted to the 
hospital. Should a case unexpectedly appear, a place for it will be 
found in an isolated house on the farm attached to the Almshouse. 

The men and women are ever well clad; the clotliing and shoes 
worn are made in the State prisons of the State, excepting the 
men's shirts and women's skirts, which are made by women inmates 
of the institution. Men are given tobacco, a quarter of a pound 
package to each every week; women are given something extra each 
week to equal the consideration given the men. Invalids are spe- 
cially fed, as necessity requires. Provisions and goods of all kinds 
purchased for the institution are bought in large quantities at whole- 
sale, and under the present system of bookkeeping at the institution 
it can readily be seen when and where every article was purchased — 
the cost, when received and by whom received. The business man- 
agement is most excellent. 

The expenditure for the maintainance of dependent children 
outside of the Almshouse has always been a large item in the county 
budget. As the law will not permit of the keeping of a child over 



114 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

two years of age in the Almshouse, arraugement for their care has 
to be made with institutions outside. Children ranging in age be- 
tween two and sixteen years, a county charge, are sent to these in- 
stitutions, viz.: The Westchester Temporary Home for Destitute 
Children at White Plains, the Catholic Protectory at Westchester, 
the Home of the Missionary Sisters at Peekskill, the Orphan Home 
at Albany, and the Home of the Sisters of Divine Compassion at 
White Plains. At present there are about five hundred such chil- 
dren in these several homes, for the support of which the county 
pays, as board, $2.11 each per week. These children are committed 
by Overseers of the Poor, Justices of the Peace and Police Justices, 
for destitution and different misdemeanors; the Superintendent of 
the Poor has control over only those who are committed for destitu- 
tion. The Board of Supervisors during its sessions of 1896-97, on 
suggestion of Supt. Esser, passed a law providing for the plac- 
ing of children in private families and thus arranging for their sup- 
port. Two lady agents are engaged under this law — one Protestant 
and one Catholic — for the purpose of placing the children in private 
homes, and they act under the guidance and supervision of the 
Superintendent. Homes are selected with great care and after the 
most thorough investigation. The project has met with great suc- 
cess, and those entrusted wdth its fulfillment feel greatly encour- 
aged. From April 1, 1897, to April 1, 1898, about one hundred 
children were provided with desirable homes; these children ranged 
from 8 to 15 years; five children, between the ages of 2 and 3 years, 
have found parents by adoption. 

The cost of maintaining dependent children w^as reduced in 
1890, by Superintendent Esser, from $65,000 to $45,000, by com- 
pelling the jiarents who were financially able, to to contribute to the 
support of their children harbored in the public institutions; in 
1892 the cost was further reduced to $35,000. In 1896, when Mr. 
Esser again assumed office, he kept the expense of the children's 
support down to $46,261.28, where it cost, under his predecessor in 
the year before $73,547.84. This year the appropriation for this 
particular purpose is $52,000. 

The county farm, on which the Almshouse stands, contains 
110 acres and furnishes a greater part of the needed supplies. The 
main building, about 200x70, will accommodate 510 inmates; the 
concrete building, used as a wasli-house, is in size 40x60; the tramp- 
house is a wooden building, 25x80; another frame building, 20x40, 
is used as a lodging-house. The new hospital building, for the 
erection of which the Board of Supervisors recently appro])riated 



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$10,000, is being built, of concrete, three stories high, with base- 
ment, 50x80; the excavating, the dressing of stone, the building of 
foundation walls and much of the laboring work on the proposed 
building, is being performed by able-bodied inmates of the Alms- 
house. When completed the building will be provided with all 
modem hospital improvements. The structure will be located on 
line with the main building, on the west end, the roadway separating 
the two buildings. 



PRESENT OFFICIALS OF THE COUNTY ALMSHOUSE. 

Henry Esser, Superintendent. 

Wesley Boyce, Keeper. 

W. W. Mills, M. D., House Physician. 

N. H. Freeland, M. D., Visiting Physician. 

R. B. Coutant, M. D., and H. Beattie Brown, M. D., Consult- 
ing Physicians. 

Frederick Crisfield, Clerk and Bookkeeper. 

Mrs. Wesley Boyce, Matron. 

Miss Susie Boyce, Assistant Matron. 

Mrs. Louise Flagg, Professional Nurse. 

James Potts, Professional Nurse. 

Mrs. A. C. Strang, of Yonkers, Agent for placing Protestant 
children. 

Mrs. A. E. Hume, of New Eochelle, Agent for placing Catholic 
children. 



116 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Coroners who have Served the County. 



Following is given the names, addresses, and first year of the 
term in which they served of persons holding the office of Coroner 
in this county since 1847. The term of office at present is three 
years, and the salary $1,500 per year: 

James L. Townsend, East Chester, 1847. 

Dwight Capron, Harrison, 1847. 

Squire Smith, Bedford, 1847. 

James P. Huntington, Yonkers, 1847-50-53. 

William H. Lawrence, Yonkers, 1850-53-58-61. 

William Johnson, Morrisania, 1853. 

Samuel W. Hurd, New Kochelle, 1850-53-56. 

Elijah P. Morrell, Port Chester, 1856. 

William J. Van Tassel, Tarrytown, 1856. 

Henry W. Purdy, Croton Landing, 1856-67. 

Squire Griffin, Sing Sing, 1859. 

Benjamin B. Valentine, West Farms, 1859. 

Horace B. Smith, Port Chester, 1859. 

Stephen Billings, Peekskill, 1863-65. 

Lewis F. Pelton, Mount Kisco, 1862. 

Zar H. Piobinson, Westchester, 1862. 

Thomas Smith, Hastings, 1864-67-70. 

Isaac Covert, Eye, 1865. 

T. Mason Oliver, Morrisania, 1865. 

James McEntee, Croton, 1868. 

William Bathgate, Morrisania, 1869. 

Daniel Shannon, Yonkers, 1870. 

William E. Meeks, Mount Vernon, 1871. 

Charles Brennecke, Eye, 1872. 

John M. Miller, Morrisania, 1873. 

Edgar D. Bassett, Peekskill, 1873. 

Thomas Young, Mount Kisco, 1873. 

Wilfred P. Purdy, Port Chester, 1876. 

Hugh Hughes, Yonkers, 1875-76. 

Nelson G. Foshay, Peekskill, 1876. 

Frank G. Sehirmer, White Plains, 1877-80. 

Charles J. Nordquist, M. D., Tuckahoe, 1879-82-89. 

William H. Hyler, Port Chester, 1879-82. 

John R. Aekerman. Dobhs Ferry, 1879. 
Abram Hyatt, Jr., Sing Sing, 1882. 
Leonard Tice. Mount Vernon, 1883-86. 



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George H. Sutton, Sing Sing, 1885-88-91. 

Elijah Purdy, White Plains, 1885. 

Edward J. Mitchell, Yonkers, 1883-86-90-91. 

A. Smith Hopkins, North Castle, 1888. 

John Mathews, New Eochelle, 1889. 

Frederick Drews, Mount Vernon, 1890. 

Aaron J. Mixsell, M. D., Mamaroneck, 1892. 

Charles A. Miles, M. D., Yonkers, 1894-97. 

Archibald T. Banning, M. D., Mount Vernon, 1894-97. 

Charles E. Birch, M. D., White Plains, 1895-98. 

Joseph A. Apgar, Peekskill 1894. 

Charles S. Apgar, Peekskill, 1895. 

Note. — Bryan Flood, of Yonkers, was elected Coroner in No- 
vember, 1874, but died before January 1, 1875, the date on which he 
should qualify. Hugh Hughes, of Yonkers, was appointed by 
Gov. Tilden to fill vacancy caused by such death and was elected 
to serve until January 1, 1879. Dr. Charles J. Nordquist, Coroner, 
was accidentally killed in 1890; the vacancy was filled by Gov. Hill 
appointing Edward J. Mitchell, of Yonkers. Joseph A. Apgar, who 
entered upon the duties of the office January 1, 1894, died in 1895; 
hifi son, Charles S. Apgar, also of Peekskill, was appointed by Gov. 
Morton to fill vacancy, and was elected in 1895 to serve until Jan- 
uary 1, 1899. 



County Commissioners of Excise. 

County Commissioners of Excise were appointed under a gen- 
eral act by the County Judge and the Justices of Sessions, and were 
authorized and directed to act instead of, and perform all the duties 
formerly discharged by. Town Excise Boards in the several towns 
of the county. The said Commissioners were appointed to hold 
office six years, one being appointed every second year. The fol- 
lowing named served as Commissioners, in this county, in the years 
given, from 1857 to 1870, when the law was repealed: 

Silas D. Gifford, Morrisania, 1857 to 1862. 

James Williamson, South Salem, 1857 to 1870. 

John Bussing, Fordham, 1857 to 1868. 

David W. Miller, Poundridge, 1862 to 1870. 

Darius Lyon, East Chester, 1868 to 1870. 

These Excise Commissioners met at the Court House in White 
Plains at least once a month. Henry Kidd, of West Farms, wap 



118 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

Secretary of the Commission, and Cyras Lawrence, of Lewisboro, 
acted as Counsel. 

Under a special act passed in 1874, applying to this county 
alone, three County Commissioners of Excise were appointed May 
15, 1874, as follows: 

Henry B. Archer, Yonkers. 

Stephen H. Miller, Bedford. 

Alfred Walker, Sing Sing. 

This Commission was in office but one year. Its meetings were 
held at White Plains. George P. Nelson, of Peekskill, acted as Sec- 
retary of the Commission. 



Commissioner of Jurors. 



The Legislature passed a special act May 6, 1892, creating the 
offices of Commissioner of Jurors and Deputy Commissioner of 
Jurors, in and for Westchester County, to perform certain duties 
heretofore discharged by the County Clerk of said county. Salary 
o\' the Commissioner was fixed at $2,000, and that of the Deputy 
Commissioner at $1,000 per year. The Commissioner, the law 
provides, shall be appointed every three years, at a joint meeting of 
the County Judge, the County Treasurer, the District Attorney and 
the Sheriff; the Deputy Commissioner to be appointed by the Com- 
miss'oner. 

I. Howard Kinch, of Pleasantville, was appointed first Com- 
missioner of Jurors May 12, 1892, and continued in office until 1897. 

John Sells, of Yonkers, was appointed and took office April 9, 
1897. 

George W. Burhnson, of Croton Falls, served as Deputy Com- 
missioner from 1892 to 1894. 

Harold Kinch, of Pleasantville, as Deputy Commissioner from 
1894 to 1897. 

John J. Mahaney, of Tarrytown, was appointed Deputy Com- 
missioner 1897. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 119 



School Commissioners of the County, 



The act establishing free schools in this State was passed by 
the Legislature March 26, 1849. From that date until 1857 School 
Commissioners in this county were appointed by the Board of Super- 
visors. In 1856 an act was passed by the Legislature providing 
for the election of School Commissioners by the people. The first 
election for School Commissioners in this county was held in No- 
vember, 1857. The term of office is three years. They are all elected 
in one and the same year, each School Commissioner district electing 
one such officer. At present the salary paid in this county is $1,000, 
allowed by the State, together with $200 for traveling expenses and 
about $500 extra compensation allowed by the Board of Supervisors, 
per year. The following list gives names of persons elected to the 
office in the several districts and the years in which their terms 
commenced: 

FIRST DISTRICT : 

Jared M. Horton, Kingsbridge, 1858. 

Theodore Kent, West Farms, 1861. 

William Miller, Mount Vernon, 1864. 

Franklin W. Gilley, Morrisania, 1867, 1870. 

Joseph H. Palmer, Yonkers, 1873. 

Joseph S. Wood, Mount Vernon, 1879. 

Jared Sanford, Mount Vernon, 1882. 

C. H. Noxon, New Eochelle, 1892. 

Walter T. Allerton, Mount Vernon, 1893, now in office. 

SECOND DISTRICT : 

William G. Weston, Tarrytown, 1858. 
Isaac I). Vermilyea, Armonk, 1861. 
Abel T. Stewart, Tarrytown, 1864. 
Benson Ferris, Jr., Tarrytown, 1866. 
George W. Smith, Port Chester, 1867, 1870. 
Casper G. Brower, Tarrytown, 1873. 
Theodore B. Stephens, Tarrytown, 1882. 
James B. Lockwood, White Plains, 1885. 
Farrington M. Thompson, White Plains, 1894. 
Jacob G. Miller, Sing Sing, 1897, now in office. 



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THIKD DISTRICT: 

James W. Husted, Bedford, 1858. 
John S. Bates, Bedford, 1860. 
Henry White, Yorktown, 1861. 
Henry A. Wells^ Peekskill, 1864. 

Milton Frost, Peekskill, 18G6. 

Joseph Barrett, Bedford, 1867. 

Isaac C. Wright, Soniers, 1876. 

Edward N. Barrett, Bedford, 1879. 

Piatt E. H. Sawyer, Bedford, 1883. 

John W. Littel, Peekskill, 1887. 

Timothy C. Adams, Bedford, 1890. 

William G. Barrett, Bedford, 1895, now in office. 

Isaac D. Vermilyea, of the Second District, died while in office 
in AugTist, 1864; Abel T. Stewart, of Tarrytown, was appointed to 
succeed him, the latter resigned in August, 1866, and was succeeded 
by Benson Ferris, Jr., of Tarrytown. James W. Husted, of the 
Third District, resigned Feb. 16, 1860; John S. Bates, of Bedford, 
was appointed to fill the vacancy. Henry A. Wells, of the Third 
District, resigned in May. 1866; Milton Frost, of Peekskill, was ap- 
pointed to the vacancy. 



County School Superintendents. 



The office of County Superintendent of Common Schools was 
created by the State Legislature', by act of April 17, 1843. The 
Board of Supervisors of this county appointed two, Samuel L. 
Holmes, of Bedford, and John Hobbs, of Yonkers. They served 
from 1843 to 1847, March 13, when the office was abolished. 



The Palisade Commission. 



An act providing for Commissioners to confer with like repre- 
sentatives of the State of New Jersey for the acquisition of the 
Palisades of the Hudson Eiver by the United States, thereby preserv- 
ing the Palisades from defacement and spoiliation. was passed by 
the State Legislature on March 12, 1895. 

The Commissioners appointed under this act, by Governor L. P. 
Morton, were as follows: Enoch C. Bell, of Nyack; Waldo G. Morse, 
of Yonkers, and James R. Croes, of Yonkers. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 121 



Inspectors of the State Prison at Sing Sing. 

rOEMERLY CALLED THE MOUNT PLEASANT PRISON. 



The Legislature on March 2<6, 1796, by the passage of an act, 
provided for the erection of two State Prisons in this State, one to 
be located in New York city and the other in Albany. The New 
York Prison, known as Newgate, which was opened November 25, 
1797, was soon found to be inadequate to accommodate the convicts 
in the eastern section of the State, therefore, it was determined to 
sell that prison and build a new and more commodious one in or not 
far distant from New York city. Sing Sing was chosen as the site, 
chiefly because of an extensive quarry of marble on the premises, 
which would afford employment to the convicts. On March 7, 1824, 
George Tibbits, Stephen Allen and Samuel M. Hopkins were ap- 
pointed as Commissioners to build the new prison. It was com- 
pleted in 1830, ready for occupancy. The following are the names 
of the persons appointed by Governors and Senates of the State pre- 
vious to 1847, as Inspectors of Sing Sing Prison, together with their 
address and the year in which their terms commenced: 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, of Cortlandt, appointed 1830. 

Allen Macdonald, White Plains, 1830. 

John Fisher, White Plains, 1830. 

Walker Todd, Mount Pleasant, 1832. 

Chauncey Humphrey, Mount Pleasant, 1840. 

Lewis G. Irving, Sing Sing, 1840. 

Edward Kemeys, Sing Sing, 1840. 

Wilham Newton, Sullivan County, 1840. 

Isaac G. Graham, Jr., Mount Pleasant, 1840. 

Hudson McParlan, Monroe Works, 1840. 

Isaac Nelson, Jr., Sing Sing, 1840. 

Thomas Bailey, Mount Pleasant, 1841. 

John W. Edmonds, Hudson, 1843. 

Thornton M. Niven, Newburgh, 1843. 

Henry Eomer, Pleasantville, 1843. 

Isaac Birdsall, Sing Sing, 1843. 

Henry Harris, Sing Sing, 1843. 

John Bigelow, Highland Falls, 1845. 

Benjamin M. Brown, Mamaroneck, 1845. 

Benjamin Mace, Newburgh, 1845. 

James Powers, Catskill, 1845. 

John Fisher, White Plains, 1845. 

Amzi L. Dean, Lake Mahopac, 18-1^. 



122 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

As Inspectors of Sing Sing State Prison. 

Under the State Constitution adopted in 1846, three Inspectors 
of State Prisons were elected, at large, in the State. After 1848 the 
term of office was three years. Following are names of persons resi- 
dent of Westchester County who have heen elected to the office of 
Inspector, together with their address, the year in which they were 
chosen and the years they served: 

John B. Gedney, White Plains, 1847, one year. 

Alexander H. Wells, Sing Sing, 1848, three years. 

Henry Storms, Tarrytown, 1851, three years. 

Abraham B. Tappen, Fordham, 1861, three years. 

An amendment to the State Constitution, adopted in 1876. 
abolished the office of Inspector of State Prisons, and assigned the 
duties of such officers to one officer to be known as a Superintendent 
of State Prisons. The said Superintendent is empowered to appoint 
the Agents and Wardens of the several State Prisons. Under this 
law Oscar V. Sage is the present Agent and Warden of the State 
Prison at Sing Sing. Clerks at the several prisons are appointed 
by the State Comptroller. 



Agents and Wardens of Sing Siog Prison. 

As previously stated, the Legislature authorized the erection of 
a State prison at Sing Sing in 1824. The Commission appointed 
under this act entrusted the construction of the prison to Captain 
Elam Lynds, who at the time was the Agent of the State Prison at 
Auburn. Captain Lynds set about to perform the work with the 
aid of convict labor. He selected one hundred convicts from the 
Auburn Prison, these men, with their keepers, guards, baggage and 
provisions, were brought to Sing Sing without accident or disturb- 
ance, on May 14, 1825. The same day a temporary barrack was 
erected to shelter the convicts at night, and for several years the 
men worked industriously building their own prison. When com- 
pleted in 1829 the prison contained eight hundred cells; two hun- 
dred cells were added in 1830, when the building was raised one 
story. The first Warden appointed for the new prison was Kobert 
Wiltse, and he served for nearly ten years. At that time Wardens 
received their appointment from the Governor of the State, for a 
term of two years. Commencing with 1850, the title of the officer 
at the prison was changed from Warden to Agent and Warden, and 
he was appointed by the Prison Inspectors. 



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Following are names of persons who have held the office, to- 
gether with dates on which they qualified, from 1830 to the present 
year: 

Eobert Wiltse, Agent, Nov. 2, 1830. 

David L. Seymour, Agent, April 18, 1840. 

William H. Peck, Agent, May 26, 1843. 

Hiram P. Rowell, Agent, Sept. 25, 1845. 

Chauncey Smith, Agent, Jan. 6, 1848. 

Alfred R. Booth, Agent, Jan. 24, 1849. 

Munson I. Lockwood, Agent and Warden, Nov. 23, 1850. 

Christopher Batterman, Agent and Warden, Jan. 2, 1855. 

A. H. Wells, Agent and Warden, April 26, 1856. 

William Beardsley, Agent and Warden, May 7, 1856. 

Gaylord B. Hubbell, Agent and Warden, May 1, 1862. 

Thos. E. Sutton, Agent and Warden, Jan. 27, 1864. 

S. H. Johnson, Agent and Warden, Jan. 19, 1865. 

D. P. Forrest, Agent and Warden, Jan. 16, 1868. 

Henry C. Nelson, Agent and Warden, Jan. 22, 1869. 

Edmund M. Russell, Agent and Warden, Feb. 10, 1870. 

Henry C. Nelson, Agent and Warden, Jan. 11, 1872. 

Gaylord B. Hubbell, Agent and Warden, Jan. 7, 1873. 

James Williamson, Agent and Warden, Aug. 28, 1874. 

Alfred Walker, Agent and Warden, Oct. 6. 1874. 

Geo. R. Youngs, Agent and Warden, Jan. 20, 1876. 

Benj. S. W. Clark, Agent and Warden, Feb. 20, 1877. 

Chas. Davis, Agent and Warden, Feb. 20, 1878. 

Augustus A. Brush, Agent and Warden, March 18, 1880. 

Wm. R. Brown, Agent and Warden, May 2, 1891. 

Chas. F. Durston, Agent and Warden, May 3, 1893. 

Omar V. Sage, Acting Agent and Warden, Oct. 10, 1894. 

Omar V. Sage, Agent and Warden, Dec. 3, 1894. 



John Sing, June 22, 1832. 
H. P. Rowell, Sept. 8, 1836. 
Munson I. Lockwood, Nov. 23, 1840. 
Hiram P. Rowell, March 31, 1840. 
Levi L. Lockwood, Sept. 27, 1845. 
James B. Swain, Jan. 6, 1848. 
Abraham Gridley, Jan. 24, 1849. 
James C. Hale. April 16, 1850. 



124 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

Casper C. Childs, Jan. 7, 1852. 
Benjamin G. Berry, Jan. 5, 1855. 
Daniel Stewart, Sept. 14, 1855. 
Henry L. Butler, July 26, 1856. 
John Bussing, April 15, 1863. 
Henry A. Eeeves, Jan. 9, 186-1. 
Walter Franklin, Jan. 19, 1865. 
Casper C. Childs, Jr., Feb. 12, 1869. 
George B. Gifford, Jan. 7, 1873. 
Samuel S. Whallon, Jan. 20, 1876. 
Omer Leyns, March 1, 1877. 
A. L. Bahcock, March 15, 1878. 
M. De Forest Yates, Feb. 5, 1890. 
John E. Ashe, March 5, 1890. 
Wm. N. Johnston, Dec. 11, 1891. 
Robt. J. Campbell, July 11, 1892. 
Edward P. Corwin, March 5, 1894. 
Edgar W. Cook, July 8, 1895. 



Chaplains at the Sing Sing Prison, 

The first Chaplain appointed for Sing Sing Prison was Rev. 
E. N. Mead, who subsequently in 1834 became rector of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church of Sing Sing. 

In 1839 Rev. John Luckey, Methodist clergyman, became the 
Chaplain, serving until 1846. He was again appointed to the posi- 
tion in 1855, and remained until 1865. Rev. Mr, Luckey organized 
the prison library, Gov. Seward having authorized in 1840 the pur- 
chase of books, and the Legislature, failing to make an appropria- 
tion. Gov. Seward paid the cost ($300) from his private purse. 
When Rev. Mr. Luckey, in 1865, retired from active life, the State, 
by an act of the Legislature, presented to him $1,000, in recogni- 
tion of his long and faithful services, longer than any other Chap- 
lain, nearly eighteen years. Rev. Mr. Luckey died in 1876, aged 76 
years, and was buried in Dale Cemetery, Sing Sing. 

Rev. Jacob Green was appointed Chaplain in 1846. He died 
in 1851, at the age of 61 years. His remains lie buried in Dale Cem- 
etery. ■ 



United States Military Posts in the County. 

Fort Schuyler, opposite Westchester; Fort Slocum, opposite 
New Rochelle. The last named fort is the recruit rendezvous. 



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The Present Prison Oflficials. 



The present officials connected with the State Prison at Sing 
Sing are as follows: 

Omar V. Sage, Agent and Warden, salary $3,500 per annum. 

Hev. J. C. Wells, Chaplain, salary $2,000 per annum. 

E. W. Cook, Clerk, salary $2,000 per annum. 

Dr. R. T. Irving, Physician, salary $2,000 per annum. 

James Connaughton, Principal Keeper, salary $2,000 per 
annum. 

James Jackson, State Detective, salary $1,800 per annum. 

J. A. Perry, Superintendent Manufacturing Department, salary 
$1,800 per annum. 

Cornelius V. Collins, Superintendent of Prisons, salary $6,000 
per annum. 

The Eleven G-reat Wonders in America. 



Croton Aqueduct, in this county. 

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa; claimed to be the largest 
park in the world. 

Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world. 

Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. 

Niagara Falls, a sheet of water three-quarters of a mile wide, 
with a fall of 175 feet. 

Natural Bridge, over Cedar Creek, in Virginia. 

New State Capitol, at Albany, New York. 

New York and Brooklyn Bridge. 

The Central Park, in New York City. 

Washington Monument, Washington, D. C, 555 feet high. 

Yosemite Valley, California. 



Legal Holidays, 

January 1, New Year's Day. 
February 12, Lincoln's Birthday. 
February 22, Washington's Birthday. 
May 30, Decoration Day. 
July 4, Independence Day. 
September 5, Labor Day. 
November 8, Election Day. 
November 24, Thanksgiving Day. 
December 25, Christmas. 
Every Saturday, after 12 o'clock, noon 



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Post Offices and Postmasters in Westchester County. 



Amawalk, town of Yorktowu, David liyder, Jr., Postmaster. 

Ardsley, town of Greenburgh, John H. Odell Postmaster. 

Ardsley-on-Hudson, town of Greenburgh, Robert W. Plum 
Postmaster. 

Armonk, town of North Castle, WiUiam ¥. McDonald Post- 
master. 

Baldwin Place, town of Somers, Samuel Lounsbury Postmaster. 

Banksville, town of North Castle, H. B. Alley Postmaster. 

Bedford, town of Bedford, Eliza D. Cochrane Postmaster. 

Bedford Station, town of Bedford, William B. Adams Post- 
maeter. 

Boutonville, town of Poundridge, Joseph W. Waterbury Post- 
master. 

Briarcliff Manor, town of Ossining, Charles H. Whitson Post- 
master. 

Bronxville, town of East Chester, Anna V. T. Smith Post- 
mistress. 

Buchanan, town of Cortlandt, George Buchanan Postmaster. 

Chappaqua, town of New Castle, George Hunt Postmaster. 

Chauncey, town of Greenburgh, James Eaton Postmaster. 

Cross River, town of Lewisboro, William Moore Postmaster. 

Croton Falls, town of North Salem, Frederick A. Purdy Post- 
master. 

Croton Lake, town of Yorktown, George Palaier Postmaster. 

Croton-on-Hudson. town of Cortlandt, James F. Hunt Post- 
master. 

Crugers, town of Cortlandt, James H. Lent Postmaster. 

Dobbs Ferry, town of Greenburgh, Charles G. Storms Post- 
master. 

Eastview, town of Mount Pleasant, Carrie De Revere Post- 
master. 

Elrasford, town of Greenburgh, William T. Hallenbeck Post- 
master. 

Goldens Bridge, town of Lewisboro, George H. Bennett Post- 
master. 

Harrison, town of Harrison, Nicholas E. Bnraer Postmaster. 

Hartsdale, town of Greenburgh. John F. Morse Postmaster. 

Hastings-on-Hudson. town of Greenburgh, Frederick Gorlich 
Postmaster. 

Irvington, town of Greenburgh. James A. Hall Postmaster. 



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Jefferson Valley, town of Yorktown, John W. Birdsall Post- 
master. 

Katonah, town of Bedford, Henry W. Kellogg Postmaster. 

Kensico, town of North Castle, Peter Bang Postmaster. 

Kitchawan, town of Yorktown, Silas Gregory, Jr., Postmaster, 

Lake Waccabuc, town of Lewisboro, Henry J{. Johns Post- 
master. 

Larchmont, town of Mamaroneck, B. Prank Palmer Postmaster. 

Lewisboro, town of Lewisboro, Stephen G. Seymour Postmaster. 

Mamaroneck, town of Mamaroneck, William A. Boyd, Poet- 
master. 

Millwood, town of New Castle, George F. Allen Postmaster. 

Mohegan, town of Yorktown, Francis J. Cronk Postmaster. 

Montrose, town of Cortlandt, Morris T. Mimger Postmaster. 

Mount Kisco, town of Bedford, Charles S. Ware Postmaster. 

Mount Vernon, town of Mount Vernon, David 0. Williams 
Postmaster. 

Neperan, town of Mount Pleasant, Alfred Cox Postmaster. 

Nepera Park, town of Mount Pleasant, F. G. Boutelle Post- 
master. 

New Eochelle, town of New Rochelle, James Ross Postmaster. 

North Castle, town of North Castle, Isaac R. Tripp Postmaster. 

North Salem, town of North Salem, Edward W. Cole Post- 
master. 

North Tarrytown, town of Mount Pleasant, J. M. Swift Post- 
master. 

Oscawanna, town of Cortlandt, Stephen B. See Postmaster. 

Peekskill, town of Cortlandt, William R. Thorne Postmaster. 

Pelliam, town of Pelham, Katherine I. Merritt Postmistress. 

Pelham Manor, town of Pelham, George H. Kerr Postmaster. 

Pleasantville, town of Mount Pleasant, Thomas B. Pierce Post- 
master. 

Pleasantville Station, tow^n of Mount Pleasant, William T. 
Bailey Postmaster. 

Pocantico Hills, town of Mount Pleasant, William Foley Post- 
master. 

Port Chester, town of Rye, John Leonard Postmaster. 

Poundridge, town of Poundridgc, Frederick R. Scofield Post- 
master. 

Primrose, town of Greenburgh, William A. Cornelius Post- 
master. 

Purchase, town of Harrison, Charles C. Haviland Postmaster. 

Purdy Station, town of North Salem, Ira McKeel Postmaster. 



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Kye, town of Eye, Disbrow Budd Postmaster. 

8alem Centre, town of North Salem, Albert J. Lobdell Post- 
master. 

Searboro, town of Ossining, Theodore Neid Postmaster. 

Scarsdale, town of Scarsdale, Herbert B. Fellows Postmaster. 

Scotts Corners, town of Poundridge, Sivori Selleek Postmaster. 

Shrub Oak, town of Yorktown, Frank Darrow Postmaster. 

Sing Sing, town of Ossining, John McNally Postmaster. 

Somers, town of Somers, William D. Marshall Postmaster. 

Somers Centre, town of Somers, Charles T. Tompkins Post- 
master. 

South Salem, town of Lewisboro, George Lawrence Postmaster. 

Tarrytown, town of Greenburgh, Isaac Eequa Postmaster. 

Tuckahoe, town of Eastchester, Eichard G Bennett, Postmaster. 

Valhalla, town of North Castle, William 0. Carpenter Post- 
master. 

Verplanck, town of Cortlandt, Mary E. McGuire Postmistress. 

Vista, town of Poundridge, Eufus E. Smith Postmaster. 

West Somers, town of Somers, Frank Eyder Postmaster. 

White Plains, town of White Plains, John P. Moran Postmaster. 

Yonkers, town of Yonkers, Henry Osterheld Postmaster. 

Yorktown, town of Yorktown, Minnie L. Peterson Postmistress. 

Yorktown Heights, town of Yorktown, Theodore F. Tompkins 
Postmaster. 



The Big State Seal. 

Among the many curious and interesting old documents found 
by County Clerk Crumb in his rearranging of old papers in the 
County Clerk's oflfiee, at White Plains, are the certificates of appoint- 
ment to office made in the early days of the State's history, especially 
when John Jay was Governor. Then Justices of the Peace, as well 
as other officers, were appointed by the Governor. To these certifi- 
cates, written on parchment, is attached, suspended by a piece of 
ribbon, the Great Seal of the State of New York, adopted in 1777. 
This seal was the first designed after the organization of the State, 
is impressed upon wax, and is nearly as large as a saucer. It was 
devised by a committee appointed by the Convention of the State, 
April 15, 1777, composed of Messrs. Morris, Jay and Hobart, and 
was to be used for all purposes for which the Crown Seal was used 
under the colony. On one side is a rising sun, motto "Excelsior," 
legend, "The Great Seal of the State of New York." On the reverse 
side a rock in the ocean; legend, "Frustra, 1777." 



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Former Officers of the County. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



LEWIS C. PLATT. 

Lewis Canfleld Piatt, the firsi 
elecled Surrogate of Westchester 
County, was born in North Castle, 
in said county, in March, 1818. He 
was a son of Benoni Piatt, a farmer 
of that town, and on the farm the 
subject of this sketch spent his 
early days. He, like several other 
men who became prominent in the 
county's history, attended the Acad- 
emy at Bedford; in 1834 he entered 
Union College, from which he grad- 
uated with special honors. Decid- 
ing upon becoming a lawyer, he en- 
tered the law office of Samuel E. 
Lyon. Here his studiousuess and 
love of learning served him well, 
as usual, and in 1843 he was able to 
practice law on his own account, 
opening an office in White Plains. 
His honesty of purpose and kind- 
ness of heart, that characterized 
him through life and made men love 
him, soon gained for him clients 
that came from all sections of the 
county. He in politics became at- 
tached to the Whig party, and as 
the candidate of that painty was 
elected Supervisor of White Plains 
in 1846. In 1847 he v/as elected Sur- 
rogate, and was the first person 
elected to that office in Westchester 
County. He was re-elected and 
served two terms, eight years. In 
1855 he was candidate for County 
Clerk on the fusion Whig-Demo- 
cratic county ticket, but was de- 
feated by a small majority by John 
P. Jenkins, the candidate of the 
American party. Mr. Piatt was one 
m.ost instrumental in having the 
present County Court House erected 
where it now stands. A strong pres- 
sure had been brought to change the 
site to Mount Vernon, but the un- 
tiring efforts of Mr. Piatt and his 
friends prevailed. When the pres- 



ent site was about to be purchased 
Mr. Piatt urged that the county se- 
cure at least ten acres instead of 
one and a half acres, for a site and 
public park, he claiming that the 
future growth of the county would 
require the land for public build- 
ings and use; then the land, which 
is now in the very center of the bus- 
iness portion of the village of 
White Plains, could be bought for 
?300 per acre; but others in author- 
ity were not as far-sighted as Mr. 
Piatt and the opportunity was lost. 
Mr. Piatt's sympathies were with 
the Republican party during the 
late civil war, but when Horace 
Greely was nominated for Presi- 
dent, in 1872, he was found in the 
ranks of the Liberal Republicans, 
uniting with Democrats supporting 
Mr. Greely. In the latter year he 
was urged to accept the Democratic- 
Liberal Republican nomination foi 
Congress in the Westchester dis- 
trict, which, however, he declined. 
Subsequently Mr. Piatt acted with 
the Democratic party. He was 
elected to serve several terms as a 
Trustee of the village of White 
Plains. In 1883 the Democrats of 
White Plains nominated him for 
Supervisor, to oppose a popular Re- 
publican, who had heretofore been 
elected to the office, and was consid- 
ered invincible. Mr. Piatt was suc- 
I cessful by a large majority, and was 
I elected continuously up to 1893, the 
year in which he died. For more 
] than forty years he labored zeal- 
1 ously, conducting a large practice, 
his efforts being often rendered gra- 
j tuitously, assisting those in need. 
He was the oldest member of White 
Plains Lodge, No. 473, F. & A. M., 
having joined May 15, 1859. He was 
a consistent member of the Presby- 
terian Church. In 1853 Mr. Piatt 
was married to Miss Laura Sher- 



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brook Popham, of Scarsdale. His 
widow and eight children survive 
him. 



ISAAC N. MILLS. 

Isaac N. Mills, a former County 
Judge, was born in Thompson, 
Windham County, Connecticut, on 
September 10, 1851. He is descend- 
ed from paternal ancestors who 
were farmers in the town of 
Thompson from a period antedat- 
ing the Revolution. On his moth- 
er's side he is descended from a 
family of Rhode Island Quakers, to 
a branch of which General Greene, 
of Revolutionary fame, belonged. 
At the age of seventeen he entered 
the Providence Conference Semi- 
nary, at Greenwich, Rhode Island, 
taught district school for a term, 
working evenings to keep up with 
his class, and was graduated in the 
summer of 1870 at the head of his 
class. Entering Amherst College, 
he took prizes during the course in 
Latin, Greek, philosophy, physi- 
ology, debate and extemporane- 
ous speaking, and was graduated 
in 1874 as valedictorian, having 
also been for two years pres- 
ident of his class. In 1876 he 
was graduated from Columbia 
College Law School, and in Oc- 
tober of that year was admitted to 
the bar in New York city. He be- 
gan practice in Mount Vernon, be- 
coming a member of the law firm 
of Mills & "Wood, this partnership 
continuing until 1882. Judge Mills, 
soon after his being admitted, 
earned for himself recognition as 
a learned lawyer, and it was not 
long before he acquired a large 
practice and a most prominent 
place in the front rank of the West- 
chester County Bar. His success 
as a trial lawyer creates a constant 
demand for his services. He has 
appeared in many of the most im- 
portant litigations of Westchester 
County, including the contests over 
the wills of William M. Wallace 
and Alfred H. Buncombe, both 
leaving large estates; the case of 
Reynolds vs. the Bank of Mount 
Vernon, and the investigation of 
the Westchester Temporary Home. 
In the fall of 1883 he was nominat- 
ed by the Republican party as its 



candidate for County Judge. At 
this time the county was consid- 
ered to be strongly Democratic, and 
the Republicans had little hope of 
electing their county nominees. Mr. 
Mills' well-established reputation 
suggested him to voters as a man 
specially fitted for the position, and 
a large majority of the votes was 
cast in his favor. In 1889 he was 
re-elected by an increased major- 
ity. As a Judge he proved accept- 
able to members of the bar and to 
laymen alike. To all he was fair 
and just. As presiding Judge of 
the Court of Sessions, he conduct- 
ed the trial of some of the most 
noted criminal cases ever tried in 
Westchester County. In 1895, at 
the close of his second term, he 
was again tendered the Republican 
nomination, which he declined to 
accept for the reason that under 
the new constitution the County 
Judge was 'disqualified from prac- 
ticing in the Supreme Court or 
Court of Appeals. Since 1895 he 
has devoted himself exclusively to 
the practice of law, having offices 
in New York city as well as in 
Mount Vernon. He is a well-known 
speaker on public occasions, is a 
member of the New York State Bar 
Association, the Association of the 
Bar of the City of New York, the 
Westchester County Bar Associa- 
tion, the Union League Club of 
New York city, the New York, New 
England Society, Sons of the Rev- 
olution, Society of Medical Juris- 
prudence, Delta Kappa Epsilon 
Club, New York Republican Club, 
and the Masonic fraternity. He is 
married. 



DAVID CROMWELL. 

David Cromwell, a former County 
Treasurer, was born in New York 
City, on May 25, 1838, a son of John 
and Letitia (Haviland) Cromwell. 
When he was eight years of age his 
parents removed to New Windsor, 
N. Y. He was educated at the Corn- 
wall Collegiate School, from which 
he graduated as a civil engineer and 
surveyor, which profession he fol- 
lowed for about one year; then he 
went to New York city and became 
engaged in the grain trade. In 1862 
he removed to Eastchester, in this 



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county, and established a general 
store, where he continued in busi- 
ness until 1879. He was elected Su- 
pervisor of the town of Eastchester 
in 1877, and re-elected the two fol- 
lowing years, as the Republican 
candidate. In the fall of 1878 he 
ran as the nominee of his party for 
County Treasurer and was success- 
ful. This ofiBce he held twelve years. 
He became a resident of White 
Plains on becoming County Treas- 
urer, in 1879, and has since resided 
there. He was chosen president of 
the White Plains Building and Loan 
Association in 1888 and still holds 
that position; was elected President 
of the village of White Plains in 
1894, and served two years. He is 
president of the Citizen's Associa- 
tion of White Plains. He was in- 
strumental in the organization of 
the White Plains Bank and was 
elected its first president in 1893; 
this oflace he retains. He is also 
pr<^sident of the Home Savings 
Bank of White Plains. He was 
Treasurer of the village of White 
Phiins from 1889 to 1894. He is a 
Director in the People's Bank of 
Mount Vernon, is chairman of 
Group VI. of the New York State 
Bankers' Association, elected in Oc- 
toi)er, 1897; is chairman of the 
Beard of Trustees of the Presby- 
terian Church of White Plains, has 
been a member of Hiawatha Lodge, 
No. 434, F. & A. M., for twenty-five 
ye.irs. Mr. Cromwell was married 
December 3, 1873, to Miss Fannie 
Denel, daughter of Thomas W. and 
Julia Deuel, of New York City. 



JOHN HOAG. 

John Hoag, a former Supervisor 
and County Treasurer, is a native of 
Westchester County, having been 
born in the town of North Castle, on 
August 3, 1847. He is a son of Is- 
rael G. Hoag and Phebe Carpenter, 
daughter of Rees Carpenter, of 
North Castle. He was educated in 
the Mount Pleasant Military Acad- 
emy, at Sing Sing. For years Mr. 
Hoag has devoted much time to 
farming and horticultural pursuits, 
on the Hoag homestead, situated a 
mile or so north of the village of 
Sing Sing, and which has been in 
the possession of the Hoag family 



since 1835. The residence is built 
in the Colonial style of architecture 
and was erected in 1812; the site 
commands one of the grandest river 
views along the Hudson, overlook- 
ing as it does the whole theatre of 
the Arnold-Andre conspiracy. The 
old, massive barn was erected dur- 
ing the Presidential campaign of 
1840, and was named, by the farm- 
ers who assisted at the "barn-rais- 
ing," as "Tippecanoe," in honor of 
William Henry Harrison, and it has 
since been known as "Old Tippeca- 
noe." Mr. Hoag was married on 
October 4, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth 
Celeste Acker, daughter of Sylvester 
and Esther M. (Gerling) Acker, of 
Sing Sing. He has three sons — 
George P., John, and Henry B. His 
wife died December 14, 1897. In 
politics Mr. Hoag has always been 
j Identified vvith the Democratic party, 
and from his party has received 
many honors. He was elected Su- 
pervisor of the town of Ossining, to 
serve during the years 1873-74-78- 
79-80-81. In 1882 he was elected to 
the Assembly and served one term. 
He was next elected as County 
Treaurer and served from 1891 to 
1897 (when a candidate for re-elec- 
tion to this office, in 1893, no can- 
didate opposed him). Mr. Hoag is 
also a trustee of the First Baptist 
Church of Sing Sing, a trustee of 
the Dale Cemetery Association, a 
trustee of Mount Pleasant Military 
Academy, a trustee of the Sing Sing 
Savings Bank, a director of the 
First National Bank of Sing Sing, 
a director and vice-president of the 
White Plains Bank, and president 
of the V»^estchester Trust Company 
at Yonkers. 



BEN L FAIRCHILD. 

Ben Lewis Fairchild, a former 
member of Congress, was born in 
Sweden, Monroe County, N. Y., Jan- 
uary 5, 1863, and is the son of Ben- 
jamin Fairchild and Calista Schaef- 
fer, and is of English and German 
descent. The Fairchilds originally 
settled in Connecticut at an early 
period, the family name spreading 
throughout the country from that 
point. The American ancestor on 
the maternal side came over in 
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settled and married in New York, 
had one child, a son, who also had 
but one son, Jacob Schaeffer, the 
grandfather of Ben. Lewis Fair- 
child. Mr. Fairchild's father, at the 
outbreak of the civil war, enlisted 
as a private and served through the 
entire war, at the close of which he 
had suffered the loss of both prop- 
erty and health. He was severely 
wounded during the campaign of 
the Wilderness. This change in cir- 
cumstances at the close of the war 
necessitated the removal of the fam- 
ily to Washington, D. C, where 
young Fairchild, then two years of 
age and the youngest of three chil- 
dren, was reared and educated. At 
the age of thirteen he had finished 
the course in the public schools. 
For nine years following until 1885 
he was in the various departments 
of the government. His spare hours 
after business were spent in study. 
After graduating from a business 
college he entered the Law Depart- 
ment of G»:aii.bia University, grad- 
uating in 1885 with the degree of 
LL. M., having previously received 
the degree of LL. B.; then he re- 
signed his position in the Treasurj 
Department, was admitted to the 
Washington bar, and desiring a 
broader field, removed to New York 
city. Spending a year in the office 
of Henry C. Andrews, he passed his 
examination and was admitted tc 
the New York State bar in May, 
1886. Entering the law office of 
Ewing & Southard, he became a 
member of the firm in 1887, un- 
der the firm name of Ewing, South- 
ard & Fairchild, General Thomas 
Ewing, the senior member of the 
firm, being a former member of 
Congress from Ohio, Mr. Southard 
being a former member of Congress 
also from the same State. In 1893, 
General Ewing retiring, the firm 
name became, as now, Southard & 
Fairchild. Mr. Fairchild's profes- 
sional career has been devoted to 
general practice, and he has ap- 
peared in many important cases. In 
1887 Mr. Fairchild took up his resi- 
dence in Pelham, Westchester 
County, where he now resides. As 
a public-spirited citizen he has done 
more than any other one man to- 
ward the development of the present 
beautiful residence village of Pel- 
ham. Tn 1893 he was a Republican 



candidate for delegate to the Con- 
stitutional Convention and carried 
Westchester County, but was de- 
feated by the Democratic majority 
in the New York city part of the 
district. In 1894 he was the Repub- 
lican nominee for Congress in the 
Westchester County district, which 
he carried by fifty-five hundred ma- 
jority against an opponent who car- 
ried the district in the previous 
Congressional election by sixty-five 
hundred majority, thus securing the 
distinction of being the only Repub- 
lican elected to represent the dis- 
trict, excepting Hon. William H. 
Robertson, who was chosen for one 
term, at the close of the war. A 
friend relates an interesting inci- 
dent or prediction relative to Mr. 
Fairchild's going to Congress. When 
he left Washington in 1885 to seek 
his fortune in New York, an old 
friend of the family, on bidding him 
good-bye, said, "My son, I know you 
will succeed, and I expect to see you 
back here in ten years' time as a 
member of Congress." Mr. Fair- 
child laughingly replied that such 
a thing was not probable; that he 
was going to New York, not to a 
Western State. He did appear in 
Washington within ten years, just 
as his friend had predicted. In Con- 
gress Mr. Fairchild was accorded 
a prominent position and was en- 
abled to be of particular service to 
his constituents. At the end of his 
term he again received the regular 
party nomination, as the courts 
have decided, but owing to the offi- 
cial ballots having been wrongfully 
printed without his name in his 
party column, he was defeated of a 
re-election. In February, 1893, Mr. 
Fairchild married Miss Anna Crum- 
ble, daughter of the late James and 
Ann E. Crumble, an old New York 
family, and has one child, a son, 
Franklin Crumble. 



ALSOP H. LOCKWOOD. 

Alsop Hunt Lockwood, son of 
Horatio Lockwood and Bethia 
(Close) Lockwood, was born at 
Poundridge, this county, Ser-teraber 
17, 1814. Was married December 
22, 1836. to Miss Mary Eliza Rey- 
nolds, daughter of Gideon Reynolds, 
of Cross River, this county, who 




ALSOP H. LOCKWOOD. 



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ZIBA CARPENTER. 




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was the proprietor of the stage 
route from Danbury, Conn., to New 
York city. He entered the mercan- 
tile business and until 1852 con- 
ducted a general country store at 
Poundridge. In his early days he 
was interested in military affairs 
and was colonel of the Thirty- 
eighth Regiment New York State 
Infantry, receiving his commission 
from Governor Marcy. He served 
as Supervisor of the town of Pound- 
ridge from 1844 to 1853 and 1856 to 
1868, and at times acted as chair- 
man of the board. In 1852 he was 
elected Sheriff of the county and 
was member of Assembly in 1864 
and 1865. Associated with the Hon. 
William H. Robertson, he was a 
Commissioner from Westchester 
County for the erection of the 
bridge over the Harlem River, at 
the terminus of Third Avenue, Mor- 
risania. After his term as Sheriff 
he resided on the old homestead at 
Poundridge, which had been in the 
family since 1740, until 1872, when 
he sold the property and removed 
to New York city, where he died 
December 8, 1874. Like his father, 
he was a life-long Democrat, and 
was prominent in the councils of 
his party for many years. 



Regiment. In politics Mr. Carpen- 
ter has always been a Republican. 
He was elected Sheriff of Westches- 
ter County in 1873 and served from 
1874 to 1877; was a United States 
Post Office Inspector under Presi- 
dent Arthur's administration; in 
1886 he ran as his party's candidate 
for Assemblyman, but was defeat- 
ed; in 1888 he was elected a Trustee 
of the village of White Plains; in 
1892 he was unsuccessful as a can- 
didate of his party for County 
Clerk; in 1896-7 he served as Com- 
missioner of Public Works of the 
I village of White Plains. Mr. Car- 
I penter has been engaged in the 
hotel business thirty years and at 
one time kept the Westchester 
I House, on the present site of the 
! Grand Union Hotel, Fourth Avenue 
and Forty-second Street, New York 
city; was the proprietor of the 
Stock Yard Hotel, at West Albany, 
1868 to 1870; purchased the Ora- 
waupum Hotel and became its man- 
ager in 1870, retiring from same on 
his election as Sheriff; he was also 
proprietor of the Third Avenue 
Theatre, more recently Harry Mi- 
ner's Theatre, New York city. 



ZIBA CARPENTER. 

Ziba Carpenter, a former Sheriff, 
was born in the town of Harrison, 
on February 6, 1834, of Quaker par- 
entage. A son of Isaac W. and 
Amy (Ackerman) Carpenter. He 
was educated in the district schools 
of his native town. Was married 
in 1857 to Miss Catherine C. Sniffin, 
daughter of Jonathan P. Sniffin, of 
Harrison. His wife died in 1885. 
Mr. Carpenter was again married in 
1886 to Miss Amelia Leonard, 
daughter of George L. and Virginia 
Leonard, of Port Chester. From 
1862 to 1868 Mr. Carpenter was a 
conductor on the Harlem Branch of 
the New York Central Railroad and 
his popularity in that position is at- 
tested by the fact that the patrons 
of the road presented him with a 
gold watch, and on his retire- 
ment, with a silver service valued 
at $1,800. He served as sutler in 
the late civil war as a member of 
the Henry Ward Beecher Brooklyn 



ADDISON JOHNSON. 

Addison Johnson, former Sheriff, 
was born at Greenwich, Conn., on 
January 22, 1857, a son of Hugh and 
Fannie (Rankin) Johnson. When 
he was ten years of age his parents 
removed to Port Chester, in this 
county, where he has since contin- 
ued to reside. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native 
town and in the schools of Port 
Chester. He is unmarried. Mr. 
Johnson cannot, truthfully, be 
termed an office seeker. When he 
has been chosen to official position 
it has been the case of the office 
seeking the man. He has always 
been popular, especially with the 
younger element of all political par- 
ties. This characteristic frequently 
suggested his becoming a candidate 
for office, but it was not until 1892 

I that he consented to become a can- 
didate, then he was elected Super- 
visor of the town of Rye, by an un- 

j precedented majority, and served in 
that office until he was elected and 

I qualified as Sheriff, in 1895. Sheriff 



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Johnson proved a most efficient 
official, ever on duty and attending 
personally to every detail of his 
office. It is due to his persistent ef- 
forts that the Board of Supervisors 
of the county was convinced that 
the old county jail had outlived its 
usefulness, and that to secure the 
safe keeping of prisoners entrusted 
to the custody of the Sheriff a more 
modern and better equipped jail 
had to be built forthwith. Several 
Grand Juries commended the offl- 
cial action of the Sheriff and sup- 
ported his efforts in favor of better 
jail facilities. The new jail now 
being completed is the result. Mr. 
Johnson is a prominent Republican, 
one of the recognized leaders of his 
party in the county. When his 
term as Sheriff expired, Mr. John- 
son decided that he would not again 
be a candidate for public office, and 
when his townsmen, in the spring of 
1898, nominated him for Supervisor, 
he promptly declined the nomina- 
tion. In April, 1898, the Trustees 
of the village of Port Chester unan- 
imously elected him Village Asses- 
sor, and overcame his inclination to 
decline by proving to him that his 
fellow-citizens demanded that he 
serve them in this capacity, at this 
time, notwithstanding that it might 
be at a personal sacrifice. 



STEPHEN S. MARSHALL. 

Stephen Sherwood Marshall, a 
former County Register of Deeds, 
was born in the village of Sing Sing, 
in the town of Ossinsing (now Ossi- 
ning), this county, on August 5, 
1837. He is a son of Stephen and 
Margaret (Sherwood) Marshall. 
His education was obtained in pri- 
vate schools of Sing Sing, Mr. Mar- 
shall became a resident of White 
Plains in the year 1855. He was 
married on September 24, 1862, to 
Miss Hannah J. Anderson, daughter 
of Isaac and Eleanor Anderson, of 
New York city. When but nine- 
teen years of age, in 1856, Mr. Mar- 
shall was appointed Deputy County 
Clerk. He continued in this office 
until 1859, when he resigned to ac- 
cept appointment as the first Dep- 
uty County Register of Deeds ever 
named in this county. In this latter 
position he served until the end of 



1861, when he resigned, owing to 
having been elected Register of 
Deeds. Though very young, then 
only twenty-four years of age, Mr. 
Marshall was quite well known 
among public men of the county, 
and was deservedly popular. How 
he came to be nominated for Regis- 
ter is very interesting, and gives a 
fair exhibition of the energy and 
pluck that characterized the then 
styled "boy politician." The county 
had for years been strongly Demo- 
cratic, but in 1860-1, at the com- 
mencement of the civil war, the 
"War Democrats" and the Republi- 
cans combined, forming what was 
known as the Union party, and 
threatened to play sad havoc with 
former Democratic majorities. 
Available candidates on the Demo- 
cratic side were very few; in fact, 
when the leaders met in the fall of 
1861, to agree on a candidate for 
Register, men who had been consid- 
ered in connection with the nomi- 
nation peremptorily declined, fear- 
ing an overwhelming defeat. It was 
when the leaders had about con- 
cluded to give up in despair that 
young Marshall came to the front 
and offered to be the party stand- 
ard-bearer, remarking that he was 
confident that a determined and 
well-directed effort would bring 
success to the party — anyway, he 
was willing to take the nomination 
and make the effort. Surprised, yet 
pleased, the leaders gratefully ac- 
cepted the gritty young Democrat 
and he was duly nominated. Young 
Marshall in that contest proved 
himself to be one of the greatest 
campaigners of which the county 
ever boasted. His opponent was an 
I elderly gentleman favorably known 
and prominent as a member of the 
Union party. Mr. Marshall was 
elected by a handsome majority, 
and in 1862 he entered upon the dis- 
charge of his new duties; he was 
twice re-elected and served until 
1871. From 1877 to 1878 Mr. Mar- 
shall served as Supervisor of the 
town of White Plains. Since the 
latter date he has devoted himself 
Industriously to the practice of his 
profession, that of law, having of- 
fices in Nev/ York city and in 
White Plains. As to the official his- 
tory of Westchester County, as to 
acquaintance with public men of 




STEPHEN S. MARSHALL. 




WILLIAM POPHAM PLATT. 




JOHN M. DIGNEY. 




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the past and present and political 
knowledge generally, Mr. Marshall 
is doubtlessly one of the best in- 
formed. 



WILLIAM POPHAM PLATT. 

William Popham Piatt, former 
District Attorney, was born in 
White Plains on May 16, 1858, a son 
of Judge Lewis Canfield and Laura 
(Sherbrook Popham) Piatt. He was 
educated in the public schools of his 
native town, and on graduating be- 
gan the study of law in the office of 
his father. In 1879 Mr. Piatt was 
admitted to practice at the bar and 
in the same year his father made 
him his partner, and the firm of L. 
C. & W. P. Piatt rapidly took a po- 
sition in the front rank of leading 
Westchester County lawyers. When 
the elder member of the firm died 
in 1893, his son succeeded to the 
practice, which had steadily grown; 
soon after Mr. Piatt formed a part- 
nership with Ffarrington M. 
Thompson, under the firm name of 
Piatt & Thompson, which firm still 
continues. Following in the foot- 
steps of his father, Mr. Piatt be- 
came prominent as an advocate be- 
fore the Surrogate's Court, not only 
In his home county, but also in the 
County of New York; by Surro- 
gates of both counties he has been 
appointed administrator of import- 
ant estates, as well as executor and 
trustee of large properties. As a 
criminal lawyer, Mr. Piatt has a 
wide reputation; his defence of 
Frank Brouty, charged with having 
murdered a Mount Vernon police 
officer, attracted attention and sug- 
gested his election as County Dis- 
trict Attorney. Mr. Piatt's first vote 
was cast for candidates of the Dem- 
ocratic party, and to that party he 
has always continued to render 
faithful allegiance. Up to 1890 he 
persisted in declining to accept 
nominations for office, being kept 
too busily engaged by his law prac- 
tice, but in the latter year he yielded 
to the urgings of his friends and 
became the Democratic nominee for 
District Attorney of Westchester 
County. He was elected by a good 
majority; he was re-elected and 
served two terms, until 1896. In 
1895 Mr. Piatt was the nominee of 



the Democratic party for County 
Judge, and though he ran far in ad- 
vance of his associates upon the 
county ticket, he was defeated. His 
popularity has caused Mr. Piatt to 
appear at times disobliging, as was 
the case when of recent date he was 
urged to accept nominations for 
various high and honorable offices, 
and though success was quite as- 
sured, his business compelled a de- 
clination. Since his retirement 
from the District Attorney's office 
Mr. Piatt has appeared for the de- 
fense in several most important 
cases very successfully, among oth- 
ers the Peter James case, the bur- 
glar who was put on trial for shoot- 
ing and killing grocer Walker B. 
Adams, at Bedford Station, August 
19, 1896; in the case of James Kelly, 
charged with murdering his father- 
in-law, William Mead. Mr. Piatt is 
a member of the Medico-Legal So- 
ciety of the United States, a mem- 
ber of White Plains Lodge, No. 473, 
F. & A. M., a member of the Dem- 
ocratic Club, a member of the 
Knollwood Club, and a member of 
the New York Society of the Sons 
of the American Revolution, being 
eligible to membership in the latter 
organization from the fact that his 
paternal grandfather served as a 
captain in the revolutionary war, 
and that his maternal great-grand- 
father also served during the revo- 
lution as major and aid to General 
Stuben, and that his maternal 
grandfather fought for his country 
In the war of 1812. Mr. Piatt was 
married October 1, 1890, to Miss 
Sara Stuart Dean, daughter of 
Moses W. and Sara Stuart Dean, of 
White Plains, and has one child, a 
son, Stuart Dean. 



JOHN M. DIGNEY. 

John McGrath Digney, a former 
County Clerk, was born in Saratoga 
village on July 22, 1853, a son of 
Patrick and Ann (McGrath) Dig- 
ney. Was educated in the public 
schools of his native village and at 
Charlton Academy, where he com- 
pleted the preparatory course for 
Union College. When about to en- 
ter college the death of his elder 
brother occurred and he was com- 
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collegiate education and required 
to enter business pursuits to pro- 
vide means for the support of his 
mother, sister and younger broth- 
ers. He became a resident of Yon- 
kers in 1872 and there engaged in 
the hardware business. The first 
political position held by him was 
that of Clerk of the City Court of 
Yonkers, under Judge Ellis, ap- 
pointed in 1880. County Clerk 
James P. D. Crane, on January 1, 
1883, appointed him Deputy County 
Clerk. The office of County Clerk 
becoming vacant in November, 
1885, Mr. Digney was appointed to 
the position by Governor Hill, to fill 
vacancy until a successor could be 
elected at the following election. 
In 1886 Mr. Digney received the 
Democratic party's nomination for 
that office and he was elected by an 
unprecedented majority of 3,800. 
He was re-elected in 1889 and again 
in 1892, serving until 1895, when he 
declined his party's nomination for 
another term and retired from the 
office, for the purpose of devoting 
his time to the practice of his pro- 
fession. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1884, having completed his 
law studies in the office of Matthew 
H. Ellis, of Yonkers. Mr. Digney 
became a permanent resident of 
White Plains in 1895. Under the 
act creating a Water Board for the 
village of White Plains, he was ap- 
pointed a Water Commissioner and 
subsequently was elected president 
of that body. He is also counsel to 
the Board of Assessors of the town 
of White Plains. He is a member 
of the law firm of Digney & Hor- 
ton, at White Plains; a member of 
the New York Bar Association, of 
the State Bar Association, of the 
Westchester County Bar Associa- 
tion, and of the New York Press 
Club. He was a friend of Charles 
Stewart Parnell, in the latter's 
time; of John E. Redmond, of Mi- 
chael Davitt and other prominent 
Irish statesmen and politicians 
when the agitation was carried to 
the United States for the purpose of 
getting the moral support of this 
country to benefit the Irish cause. 
He is a member of many Irish pa- 
triotic societies, and has always 
taken a deep interest in the politi- 
cal struggles of the Emerald Isle. 
On February 20. 1879, Mr. Digney 



married Sarah M. Shannon, of Yon- 
kers, daughter of John Murphy, of 
Maiden, Mass. There are of this 
union two children — Robert E. Dig- 
ney and Sadie B. Digney. 



G. HILTON SCRIBNBR. 

Gilbert Hilton Scribner, a former 
Member of Assembly, a former Sec- 
retary of State, etc., was born in 
Ogden, N. Y., on June 23, 1831. He 
was educated in the public schools 
of his native place, at the Genesee 
Vv'^esleyan Seminary and at Oberlin 
College. At the close of his col- 
legiate course, in 1853, he went to 
New York city and there began life, 
unassisted by friends or acquaint- 
ances, but possessed of a large 
amount of determination to do and 
to win. He succeeded in securing 
a position in the law offices of Hon. 
Daniel B. Taylor. Here he indus- 
triously studied law, and, in 1855, 
was admitted to the bar. In 1858 
he became a resident of Yonkers, 
and since that time has been closely 
identified with public affairs in 
Westchester County. Born of Whig 
parentage, he early attached him- 
self to that party, and remained a 
member while it had an existence. 
He attended the convention which 
nominated Fremont, in 1856, and 
since that time has been an able 
and earnest supporter of the Repub- 
lican party. In 1863 he was made 
chairman of the County Committee. 
The first official position held by 
him was that of Village Trustee, in 
1863. In the fall of 1869 he was the 
Republican nominee for member of 
Assembly to represent the First 
District, and, though the district 
was considered Democratic by a 
good majority, was elected. His 
success gave him considerable 
prominence in the State, and in the 
Legislature he became a leader of 
the "Young Men Element." He was 
instrumental in organizing the 
"Young Men's State Republican As- 
sociation," the object of which was 
to unite discordant elements and 
end the strifes which had impaired 
the MPefiilness of the party. This 
organization chose Mr. Scribner for 
its president, and having shown 
himself a competent and faithful 
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clamation at the Republican State 
Convention in 1871 for Secretary of 
State; his election followed, he re- 
ceiving over tv/enty thousand ma- 
jority. He was for a time the pres- 
ident of the Palisades Bank, of Yon- 
kers, and also a director of several 
large corporations. For a consid- 
erable period Mr. Scribner was 
vice-president of the Belt Line Rail- 
road, New York city, and subse- 
quently became president of that 
company. He married Miss Sarah 
Woodbury Pettengill, daughter of 
Hon. James Osgood Pettengill, of 
Rochester. 



GEORGE J. PBNPIELD. 

George J. Penfield, a former mem- 
ber of Assembly, was born March 
24, 1826, at Camden, N. Y., the 
youngest son of Fowler Penfield, of 
English descent, who took part in 
the war of 1812. On the maternal 
side Mr. Penfield is of French and 
Holland descent, of the families 
bearing the names of DeMilt and 
Wormsley, that fled from the perse- 
cutions instituted against the Chris- 
tians, having left their property to 
be confiscated, and landed on Man- 
hattan Island, when New York was 
but a small village. Mr. Penfield 
had few advantages for acquiring 
learning. From boyhood to the age 
of twenty-five he was employed in 
farming pursuits. Before he was 
twenty-one he removed with his fa- 
ther and family to Westchester 
County. For many years he was a 
resident of New Rochelle and took 
an active interest in all public af- 
fairs. On the breaking out of the 
war of the rebellion he aided in fit- 
ting out the first regiment of vol- 
unteers which went from West- 
chester County. In 1862 Mr. Pen- 
field was elected secretary of the 
Westchester Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, and was subsequently chosen 
president of it. He was elected to 
various offices in the town and vil- 
lage of New Rochelle. He was one 
of the first elected Trustees of the 
village of New Rochelle, in 1858. 
was Supervisor in 1865 and 1866; 
later served several years as a 
member of the Board of Education; 
represented the Second Assembly 
District in the Legislatures of 1867 



and 1868. In the Legislature he 
made an honorable record and 
gained the high esteem of his fel- 
low-members. For many years Mr. 
Penfield was a member of Huguenot 
Lodge, F. and A. M., of Nev/ Ro- 
chelle, a prominent member of the 
First Presbyterian Church, New Ro- 
chelle, and later a member and trus- 
tee of Grace Methodist Church. He 
died August 6, 1896, at his Wake- 
field home. 



BRADFORD RHODES. 

Bradford Rhodes, son of William 
and Mary Maria (Baird) Rhodes, 
was born in Beaver County, Pa., 
February 25, 1848. His father was a 
farmer, of that sturdy Pennsylvania 
stock whence has come some of the 
best brain and physical workers of 
the nation, the son inheriting not a 
few of the father's characteristics. 
He was educated at Beaver Acad- 
emy and soon after his graduation 
became principal of Darlington 
Academy. In 1864, when sixteen 
years of age, he made an effort to 
serve his country in the army by 
enlisting in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers. He passed the physical ex- 
amination, but the mustering officer 
would not swear him in on account 
of his youthful look. In 1872 he 
went to New York and engaged in 
newspaper work, but it was not 
long until he embarked in busi- 
ness for himself. Although he was 
guided from the first by a spirit of 
safe conservatism, he was ever on 
the alert for good business oppor- 
tunities, and in 1877 he saw an 
opening for a first-class practical 
bankers' magazine, and established 
"Rhodes' Journal of Banking," the 
success of which proved the keen- 
ness of his foresight, as it soon be- 
came the leading bankers' publica- 
tion of the country. In 1895 he pur- 
chased the "Bankers' Magazine," 
the oldest financial publication in 
the United States, and consolidated 
the two periodicals under the title 
of the "Bankers' Magazine and 
Rhodes' Journal of Banking." It is 
said to be without a peer in the 
financial world, and is the especial 
pride of its publisher, although a 
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lications come from his press. Po- 
litically he has always been a Re- 
publican, and his party has honored 
him on various occasions. He was 
elected to the Assembly of the New 
York Legislature for three consec- 
utive terms— in 1888, 1889 and 1890. 
He was known as a conscientious, 
painstaking member, especially dis- 
tinguishing himself as chairman of 
the Committee on Banking, where 
he secured some important amend- 
ments to the banking laws of New 
York. He also introduced and se- 
cured the passage of the anti- 
bucket shop law. In 1892 he re- 
ceived the unanimous nomination 
for Congress from the Sixteenth 
District of New York, but he de- 
clined it on account of his increas- 
ing business. Besides being the 
editor of the "Bankers' Magazine," 
Mr. Rhodes is president of the 
Mamaroneck Bank and the Union 
Savings Bank of Mamaroneck, 
Westchester County, N. Y., his 
country place, Quaker Ridge Farm, 
being located near by. The place is 
stocked with fine horses and Jersey 
cattle, and is among the most desir- 
able locations in the county, the 
residence commanding a fine view 
of Long Island Sound. Mr. Rhodes 
has twice been chosen chairman of 
Group VI. of the New York State 
Bankers' Association, and has 
served and is at the present time 
(1898) serving as a member of the 
Executive Council of the American 
Bankers' Association. In both 
these associations he is known as 
an influential worker, and has done 
much to increase their usefulness. 
Besides all the business connections 
mentioned, he is a director in sev- 
eral large corporations, and al- 
though he divides his time with 
every enterprise with which he is 
connected, he yet gives personal at- 
tention to the details of his private 
business. He is a tireless worker, 
or as he himself expresses it, "keepe 
everlastingly at it," and to that one 
trait in his character he attributes 
all his success in life. He is in the 
broadest sense of the term a self- 
made man. Besides enjoying an 
enviable reputation as a clean- 
handed journalist, he has an excel- 
lent standing in the business world, 
and is the possessor of quite a hand- 
some fortune. Though an active 



business man, he is connected with 
many social organizations, being a 
member of the Union League Club, 
the Larchmont Yacht Club, the Re- 
publican Club, the West Side Re- 
publican Club and the Transporta- 
tion Club. He was married Febru- 
ary 27, 1878, to Miss Caroline Au- 
gusta Fuller, eldest daughter of 
James M. and Jane A. Fuller, of 
Mamaroneck, Westchester County, 
N. Y. Mr. Fuller was a well-known 
retired banker of New York. 



CHARLES P. McClelland. 

Charles Paul McClelland, a former 
State Senator, was born in Scotland, 
Oil December 19, 1854, and came to 
this country at an early age. He at- 
tended the public schools and laid 
the foundation for an education. 
Necessity required that he leave 
school earlier than expected. The 
evenings of the days he spent in 
hard labor he devoted to study, and 
in 1880 was rewarded, when he 
graduated with the degree of LL. B. 
at the New York University Law 
School. On being admitted to prac- 
tice law he opened law oflBces in 
New York city, and was not long in 
establishing a very successful busi- 
ness, and he is to-day considered 
one of the ablest members of the 
Westchester County bar. Mr. Mc- 
Clelland is a Democrat and a recog- 
nized leader of that party in the 
county, having been chairman of 
the county organization for a num- 
ber of years, and is prominent in 
the councils of his party's chiefs in 
the State. His political career has 
been most remarkable as it has 
been successful. His first office was 
that of Clerk of the village of 
Dobbs Ferry, which he held until 
elected a member of Assembly to 
represent the First Assembly Dis- 
trict, in 1884. He was re-elected in 
1885. His ability soon gained for 
him a prominent place on the floor 
of the Assembly, and it was not 
long before he was enabled to ex- 
ert great influence in the framing of 
legislation, and thereby earning for 
himself a distinction that outgrew 
local bounds. In 1891 Mr. McClel- 
land was again elected to the As- 
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mittee and thus became the leader 
of his party in that body. In the 
fall of 1892 he appeared in the Dem- 
ocratic State Convention as a candi- 
date for Lieutenant-Governor, and 
had the support of the delegation 
from his county as well as that of 
delegates from elsewhere. Before 
a ballot was taken he withdrew 
from the race in favor of William 
F. Sheehan. In 1892 Mr. McClel- 
land was successful as the Demo- 
cratic candidate for State Senator, 
to represent the Twelfth Senatorial 
District. In this office he served 
two years, and added much to his 
previous good record. During Pres- 
ident Cleveland's first administra- 
tion, and at the end of his service 
In the Legislature in 1886, Mr. Mc- 
Clelland was appointed a Deputy 
Collector of the Port of New York, 
and soon became Collector Ma- 
gone's special deputy and chief ex- 
ecutive officer. In this position he 
remained four years, part of the 
time uhder a Republican adminis- 
tration. Other political positions 
held by him have been President of 
the Village of Dobbs Ferry, Presi- 
dent of the Board of Education, and 
Counsel to the Village of Dobbs 
Ferry. He has been a manager of 
the Hudson River State Hospital 
for the Insane, ten years; was a 
member of the Greater New York 
Consolidation Commission; he is a 
member of the Continental Lodge. 
No. 287, F. and A. M., a member of 
Spring Valley Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
and is a trustee of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Dobbs Ferry. 
Mr. McClelland was married Sep- 
tember 6, 1879, to Miss Meta J. Bab- 
cock, of Massachusetts. 



JAMES W. RUSTED, JR. 

James W. Husted, a former As- 
semblyman representing the Third 
Assembly District, was born on 
March 16, 1870, at Peekskill, and 
was named after his father, the la- 
mented Gen. James W. Husted, for 
six terms Speaker of the Assembly. 
Mr. Husted was educated at the 
schools of Peekskill and then at 
Yale College, from which he grad- 
uated in 1892. He decided to em- 
brace the profession of a lawyer, 
and studying at the New York Law 



School was graduated from that 
school in 1894. He was elected as 
Assemblyman from the Third Dis- 
trict in the fall of 1894. He was re- 
elected in 1895 and in 1896. He de- 
clined a renomination in 1897. From 
the very commencement of his ca- 
reer as a legislator Mr. Husted be- 
came a prominent figure, and no 
young man ever gained a more en- 
viable reputation; is well informed 
on all public subjects, and a man 
of ideas; is an able and impressive 
speaker. He declined further pub- 
lic honors for the reason that he 
desires to devote his time to the 
practice of his profession. He re- 
mains an important factor in poli- 
tics, and is recognized as a Repub- 
lican leader in the county; has law 
offices in White Plains and in New 
York city. 



THOMAS K. ERASER. 

Thomas Kevan Eraser, former 
member of Assembly representing 
the First District of this county, 
was born of Scotch- American par- 
ents in the city of New York, on 
February 23, 1845; a son of Thomas 
and Jane (Kevan) Eraser. He was 
educated in the collegiate schools in 
the city of New York, and was for- 
merly extensively engaged in the 
hide and leather business in that 
city, retiring some twenty years 
ago. He became a resident of Has- 
tings-on-the-Hudson in 1851, where 
he still resides. He is largely in- 
terested in everything connected 
with the village, and has held near- 
ly every municipal office. He was 
President of the village of seven 
consecutive years; has been a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education since 
1885 and President of same since 
1892; was elected a member of As- 
sembly in 1892 and in 1893; ran 
again in 1895 and was defeated. As 
president of the Board of Sewer 
Commissioners, he was the chief 
means of getting the splendid sewer 
system now in Hastings. As a 
member of the Legislature he was 
instrumental in having passed the 
Warburton Avenue Extension meas- 
ure, and since has labored for the 
completion of that magnificent ave- 
nue connecting Hastings with Yon- 
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and country clubs, but bis time is 
mostly given to interests of the 
public schools. Mr. Fraser has al- 
ways been a Democrat. He is un- 
married. 



GEORGE L. CARLISLE. 

George L. Carlisle, former mem- 
ber of Assembly from the Second 
Westchester District, was born Feb- 
ruary 28, 1852. He was educated in 
the public schools, at Cooper Insti- 
tute and Columbia College and 
graduated from the Columbia Law 
School in the class of 1879. He 
soon succeeded in establishing a 
good business in New York city 
and vicinity. At an early age he 
became interested in public affairs 
and especially active in politics in 
Brooklyn, where he then had his 
home. He served as president of 
the Nineteenth Ward Republican 
Club, and, later, of the Twenty-fifth 
Ward Club. During the Harrison 
campaign, in 1888, he stumped the 
States of New York and New Jer- 
sey, under the auspices of the Re- 
publican National Committee, and 
has taken an active part in all Pres- 
idential campaigns as boy or man 
since 1868. He never ran for any 
public ofiice until 1895, when he was 
elected member of Assembly in a 
strong Democratic district, and this 
in face of the fact that he had to 
contend not only against the regu- 
lar Democratic candidate, but also 
against an Independent Republican. 
In the Legislature Mr. Carlisle in- 
augurated the movement that event- 
ually compelled the issue of railroad 
"fifty-trip family tickets" to the 
suburbs. He also introduced an- 
other very important bill, having 
for its purpose the reduction of the 
rate of interest which pawn-brokers 
are allowed by law to exact from 
the poor. Notwithstanding the con- 
scientious labor he devoted in at- 
tempts to pass the bill, it failed to 
become a law, owing to "certain in- 
fluences" more powerful than Mr. 
Carlisle's efforts in behalf of the 
right. Mr. Carlisle is a resident of 
New Rochelle. In 1876 he married 
Miss Mary S. Coffin, of Nantucket, 
Mass., a descendant of the earliest 
Quakers who settled in Massachu- 
setts in 1642. He has three chil- 



dren, the eldest of whom is being 
educated at Yale. 



ALFRED E. SMITH. 

Alfred E. Smith was born in 
Bronxville, Westchester County, N. 
Y., where he has since resided, on 
February 21, 1864. He received his 
education in public and private 
schools and at Williston Seminary, 
Bast Hampton, Mass. He gradu- 
ated from the latter institution in 
1883. While there he took an active 
Interest in athletics, playing on the 
baseball nine and being captain of 
the football team. He was also 
managing editor of the school paper 
and actively participated in the 
Adelphi Literary and Debating So- 
ciety. Obliged to give up a college 
career, he obtained a temporary po- 
sition in the custom service under 
Collector Robertson. Later he was 
appointed a sanitary inspector in 
the Health Department of New 
York city, he first having passed a 
civil service examination, resulting 
in his being among the first four of 
those competing. While he held 
this position he attended the late 
afternoon lectures at Columbia Law 
School. In the midst of his law 
school year the Health Department 
force of employees was reduced 
twenty men and Mr. Smith, as a 
recent appointee, was dropped. Em- 
barrassed by home responsibilities 
and expenses, he managed to finish 
his first year's work at the law 
school. He filled the position of cor- 
respondent and advertising agent i 
for the New York Lumber Trade 
Journal and traveled almost contin- 
uously for two years and a half. In 
the spring of 1889 he opened an ad- 
vertising agency in the city of New 
York and again took up the study 
of law, attending the late afternoon 
lectures at the University Law 
School and studying at night. In 
the winter of 1889 he entered the 
law offices of Fullerton & Rush- 
more, Esqs., where he continued 
until he graduated from the Uni- 
versity Law School in 1890, and 
until he started in practice on his 
own account. Mr. Smith was elect- 
ed to the Assembly, as a Republi- 
can, in 1896, and served on the im- 
portant committees on General 




CHARLES P. McClelland. 




THOMAS K. FRASER. 




GEORGE L. CARLISLE. 




ALFRED E. SMITH. 




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Laws and Banks. Upon the death 
of his colleague, Mr. Emmet, from 
the Second Assembly District, the 
legislative needs in that district 
were very largely attended to by 
him. He championed the cause of 
the people along the line of the New 
York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railroad, who were desirous of hav- 
ing that road provide family trip 
tickets. It was due to his efforts 
that the fares from Portchester 
south by sale of these tickets were 
reduced one-quarter. Whatever 
Mr. Smith is or has is due to his 
own efforts. He is unmarried and 
lives with his mother at Bronxville, 
He is village counsel and has an 
ofl&ce at White Plains and at 31 
Pine Street, New York city. As a 
descendant of Captain Ebenezer 
Smith, who served on General 
Washington's staff and was one of 
the original members of the Society 
of the Cincinnati, he is now a mem- 
ber of that order, as well as several 
others of a fraternal character. 



BENSON FERRIS. 

Benson Ferris,a former SchoolCom- 
missioner, and now president of the 
Westchester County Savings Bank, 
was bcrn at Wolfort's Roost, ziow 
Sunnyside, in Tarrytown, on July 
26, 1825, a son of Benson and Maria 
(Acker) Ferris. His early educa- 
tion was obtained at the old school 
house, which stood on the road run- 
ning east from Sunnyside Lane to 
the Sawmill River, about one hun- 
dred yards east of Broadway. He 
subsequently attended the Tarry- 
town Institute. After leaving this 
institution he was assistant for two 
years at the Paulding Institute, and 
was for some time teacher in the 
old school house which he first at- 
tended. Later he started a store at 
Irvington, which was the first one 
opened at that place, then known as 
"Dearman." In 1855 he was one of 
sixteen who organized the Repub- 
lican party in Westchester County 
in the old Court House at White 
Plains. He was appointed in 1858 
one of the Executive Committee of 
the party, at a county convention 
presided over by Horace Greeley, 
and for many years, as one of the 



leading Republicans of the county, 
he represented the party at State, 
Congressional and County Conven- 
tions. In 1856 he removed to Tarry- 
town, which has since been his 
i home, and three years later became 
I engaged in the hardware business, 
I in which he continued till 1861. He 
I has been, during the whole of his 
business life, closely connected with 
the public affairs of the town and 
I county. While living at Irvington 
j he was a member of the Board of 
I Education, and has held the same 
position at Tarrytown. In 1865 he 
! was elected trustee of the Westches- 
j ter County Savings Bank, and has 
I held the offices of secretary, vice- 
. president and president, in which 
I last position he still remains, hav- 
ing filled the office for twenty years. 
' As a conservative, trustworthy bus- 
j Iness man, Mr. Ferris is widely 
I known, and his advice is considered 
I of great value. His rare executive 
I ablility has been strongly mani- 
i fested in his management of the 
savings bank of which he is the 
honored president. Under his guid- 
ance the bank has taken an envia- 
ble position among the leading 
I moneyed institutions of the State. 
He was one of the originators of the 
Tarrytown National Bank, and is 
now a director. In 1866 he was ap- 
pointed School Commissioner for 
the Second District of Westchester 
County by William H. Robertson, 
then County Judge. He was chosen 
a director of the Tarrytown and 
Irvington Union Gas Light Com- 
pany in 1864, and has been its sec- 
retary, vice-president and president. 
He was one of the incorporators of 
the Young Men's Lyceum, of Tarry- 
town, and served as a director for 
twenty-five years. In 1879 he v;as 
elected a Trustee of the village of 
Tarrytown. He is a member of the 
Westchester Historical Society. The 
monument erected in Sleepy Hollow 
Cemetery in memory of the soldiers 
of the revolution from that section 
of the county was fostered by him. 
The project without doubt owes its 
success to his judicious counsel, 
foresight, ripe judgment and to his 
name as being the first contributor 
to the fund. Mr. Ferris was mar- 
ried in 1875 to Mrs. Mary P 
Dutcher, of Providence, R. I.; she 
died in 1890. 



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JAMES B. LOCKWOOD. 

James Betts Lockwood, now a 
resident of White Plains, was born 
in the town of Foundridge, N. Y., 
on July 18, 1849, of American par- 
entage, a descendant of one of the 
oldest and most prominent families 
of Westchester County, and can 
claim an ancestry who lived and 
acted in the days when patriotism 
was no idle boast. His parents were 
Alsop Hunt and Mary Eliza (Rey- 
nolds) Lockwood. His education 
was secured at the Bedford Acad- 
emy, at Betts Military Academy, 
Stamford, Conn., and at Union Col- 
lege. Shortly after his graduation 
from college he was admitted to 
the bar, and at the present time 
enjoys a large legal practice. His 
ofiices are in New York city. He 
has been a resident of White Plains 
for twenty-one years. Mr. Lock- 
wood was chosen by the Board of 
Village Trustees as President of the 
village of White Plains in the years 
1SS9 and 18?0; in 1SS5 he was elect- 
ed School Commissioner of the Sec- 
ond School Commissioner District, 
and was re-elected on two occa- 
sions, serving in that office until 
1894. Mr. Lockwood is a Democrat. 
At present he holds the office of 
School Trustee of his village. Mr. 
Lockwood was married October 31, 
1877, to Miss Cora Hamilton Mar- 
tin, daughter of Robert Morris and 
Anna Hamilton Martin, of New 
York city. 



FFARRINGTON M. THOMPSON. 

Ffarrington M. Thompson was 
born at Cold Spring, Putnam Coun- 
ty, N. Y., on April 14, 1865. Two 
years later he removed with his 
parents to White Plains, where he 
has resided ever since. His father, 
Joseph Thompson, died about four 
years ago. His mother, Selina H. 
(Glover) Thompson, is still living. 
He graduated with honor from the 
White Plains High School, and the 
love for his Alma Mater has sug- 
gested his frequent offering of gold 
medals to impel the present pupils 
of the school to higher proficiency. 
Mr. Thompson, though a young 
man, has for years been a man of 
affairs and prominent in local pub- 



lic matters. He filled with credit to 
himself and the service the office of 
assistant postmaster of White 
Plains for seven years. He served 
as Village Clerk several years and 
his efficiency was publicly recog- 
nized by resolutions adopted by the 
Board of Village Trustees. In 1893 
he was elected School Commis- 
sioner of the Second School Com- 
missioner District and served as 
such until 1896. He now holds the 
office of Justice of the Peace of the 
town of White Plains and also the 
position of Acting Police Justice of 
the village of WTiite Plains. In pol- 
itics Mr. Thompson is a Democrat. 
He is a prominent member of White 
Plains Lodge, No. 473, F. and A. M., 
in which he has held important of- 
fices. He is a member of the law 
firm of Piatt & Thompson, of 
White Plains, his associate being 
William Popham Piatt, ex-District 
Attorney. Mr. Thompson is unmar- 
ried. 



I. HOWARD KINCH. 

I. Howard Kinch, ex-Commis- 
sioner of Jurors, was born in the 
town of North Castle, on May SO, 
1845, of American parentage, a son 
of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth 
S. (Townsend) Kinch. His father 
was Mayor of Bordentown, N. J., 
1865-66. Mr. Kmch attended school 
at White Plains and at Round Hill, 
Conn.; was married in 1865 to Miss 
Cornelia H. Van Kirk, of Borden- 
town, N. J. In politics Mr. Kinch 
has always been a Democrat, and 
has been for years an active mem- 
ber of his party, holding for a long 
period the position of secretary of 
the Democratic County Committee, 
of Westchester County, and is rec- 
ognized as a most efficient executive 
officer. He served many years in 
the Democratic County Committee 
as the representative from the town 
of Mount Pleasant; held the posi- 
tion of postmaster at Pleasantville 
in 1869. He has also acted as an 
Inspector in the Department of 
Public Works of New York city, as 
special agent of the United States 
Treasury Department, and as a 
Deputy Sheriff of Westchester 
County. He was the first Commis- 
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County appointed under a special 
act of the Legislature. He is at 
present engaged in business as a 
real estate broker and is a resident 
of White Plains village. 



daughter of Peter F. Luckey, of 
Yonkers, on April 24, 1884. His sec- 
ond marriage occurred August 27, 
1889, to Miss Sophia J. Nehr. daugh- 
ter of William Nehr. 



M. JAMES MOONBY. 



M. James Mooney, a former Dep- I 
uty County Clerk, was born in Yon- 
kers, on July 19, 1857, a son of Mi- ; 
chael and Eliza Mooney. He was 
educated in the public schools of 
his native town. He took an active 
interest in politics as a Democrat, i 
In 1883 he became attached to the 
County Clerk's office in White [ 
Plains, as a clerk under County i 
Clerk J. F. D. Crane, and remained I 
with each succeeding clerk up to { 
the date of his death. From a I 
clerkship of minor grade he was 
promoted to be clerk of the Su- j 
preme and County Courts. In 1886 j 
he was appointed by County Clerk j 
Crumb as Deputy County Clerk, i 
which position he held at the time | 
of his death, February 4, 1897. He j 
served as clerk of the Board of Su- i 
pervisors one term. He was a mem- 
ber of the Twenty-seventh Regi- 
ment, N. Y. S. N. G., until its dis- 
bandment. He was a member of 
the Ancient Order of Foresters and 
also of the White Plains Concordia. 
He died at White Plains, where he 
had been a resident for fourteen 
years preceding. He was married 
to Miss Katharine T. Luckey, 



BENONI PLATT. 

Benoni Piatt, former Deputy Clerk 
to the Surrogate's Court and Dep- 
uty County Clerk, was born in the 
town of Scarsdale, on August 22, 
1857; a son of Judge Lewis Canfield 
and Laura (Sherbrook Popham) 
Piatt. When he was one year old 
his parents removed to White 
Plains, where he has since resided. 
He is a graduate of the public 
schools of White Plains. In politics 
Mr. Piatt strongly favors the Dem- 
ocratic side, and has long been rec- 
ognized as an influential leader 
among the young men of his party. 
The first political position held by 
him was that of Deputy Clerk of 
the Surrogate's Court, from 1881 to 
1887. In 1887 he was appointed by 
County Clerk Digney as Deputy 
County Clerk, and served in this 
office until 1896. He is at present 
the managing clerk of the West- 
chester County Branch of the Law- 
yers' Title Company of New York. 
Mr. Piatt is a prominent member of 
the Odd Fellow order, a member of 
Guiding Star Encampment of Mount 
Vernon, and of Hebron Lodge, No. 
229, of White Plains. He Is unmar- 
ried. 



FORMER SUPERVISORS. 



EBENEZER LOCKWOOD. 

Ebenezer Lockwood was born in 
Stamford, Conn., March 31, 1737. 
He was fourth in descent from 
Robert Lockwood, who came from 
England in 1630 and settled in Wa- 
tertown, Mass. At an early age he 
removed to Poundridge with his 
father, Joseph, and his grandfather, 
Joseph, Sr., who were among the 
early settlers of Poundridge. He 
married Hannah Smith, of Stam- 
ford. At the commencement of the 
revolution the subject of this sketch 
was a Justice of the Peace under 



the Crown of England, and one of 
the Quorum which was a body com- 
posed of those Justices of the Peace 
who were more prominent by rea- 
son of ability and experience. At 
the breaking out of hostilities, how- 
ever, he espoused the cause of the 
Colonies. He was appointed first 
major of the Second Regiment, 
Westchester County Militia, under 
Colonel Thomas Thomas, receiving 
his commission October 14, 1775, 
and throughout the war was ex- 
ceedingly zealous in the cause. He 
was a member of the Third, Fourth 
and Fifth Provincial Congresses. 



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and of the Committee of Safety, to 
which was delegated the power of 
the Provincial Congress during its 
recess. On July 2, 1779, Col. Tarie- 
ton made a raid upon the village of 
Poundridge, one of the objects of 
which was the capture of Major 
Lockwood, for whose head a reward 
of forty guineas was offered. On 
this occasion the British troops 
burned his house and barn and con- 
fiscated his cattle. The tradition 
has descended to the effect that the 
troopers, upon entering the house, 
struck the Major's wife with a 
sword and insolently demanded to 

know where that d d Rebel was. 

To which she coolly replied, "You 
are the Rebel, for you are rebelling 
against the King of Kings." Major 
Lockwood was present at the ses- 
sion of the Provincial Congress at 
the Court House in White Plains on 
the 9th of July, 1776. He was sub- 
sequently a member of the lirst 
Constitutional Convention of the 
State of New York, and a member 
of the second Board of Regents of 
the University, Judge of Westches- 
ter County, from 1791 to 1794; 
member of Assembly 1778, 1784, 

1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, and Super- 
visor of the town of Poundridge 
1772 to 1779, 1782 to 1786, and 1802 
to 1806. By Chapter 59, Laws of 

1786, passed May 1, 1786, he, with 
others, as stated elsewhere, was ap- 
pointed a commissioner to superin- 
tend and supervise the erection of 
the first Court House at White 
Plains. Major Lockwood died at 
Poundridge July 29, 1821, aged 84 
years. His remains lie buried in 
the old Poundridge graveyard, 
where his tombstone is still in a 
good state of preservation. He left 
a large family, among whom were 
Lewis, an attorney at law of New 
York city, who died young; Ezra, 
who was a Supervisor, a member 
of Assembly and Surrogate, and 
Horatio, who was also a Supervisor 
and a member of Assembly. 



May 29, 1853. Was a man of 
liberal education, and for seme 
years conducted a private school 
at Poundridge. In politics he was 
an ardent Whig, and at times, on 
account of political feexing, would 
not speak to his brother, Horatio, 
who resided on the opposite side of 
the street, because the latter was 
an equally strong Democrat. He 
served as Surrogate in 1811 to 1813 
and as a member of Assembly in 
1806, and Supervisor 1807 to 1820. 



HORATIO LOCKWOOD. 

Horatio Lockwood was born in 
Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn., 
September 6, 1779, the son of Major 
Ebenezer Lockwood and Hannah 
(Smith) Lockwood. His parents 
resided in Poundridge, but on July 
2. 1779, their residence was burned 
by British soldiers, during a raid 
made upon Poundridge, one of the 
objects of which was the capture of 
Major Lockwood. The Major's wife 
fled to Ridgefield and during her 
temporary stay at that place Ho- 
ratio was born. The latter was a 
life-long resident of Poundridge, 
occupying the old homestead, which 
became his by purchase. His occu- 
pation was that of a farmer and 
dealer in cattle. He was a firm 
Democrat and attained considerable 
prominence in his town and county. 
He represented the town of Pound- 
ridge in the Board of Supervisors 
during the years 1820, 1823, 1825, 
1839 and 1840, and was also a Mem- 
ber of Assembly from 1833 to 1837, 
and in 1841 and 1842. He achieved 
quite a reputation as a "pettifog- 
ger" in the days when lawyers were 
not so plenty as now and when lay- 
men frequently appeared in Jus- 
tices' Courts in the role of counsel. 
He died November 5, 1853, aged 
seventy-four years. 



ISAAC H. PURDY. 



EZRA LOCKWOOD. | Isaac Hart Purdy, a former Su- 

1 pervisor of the town of North Sa- 
Ezra Lockwood, son of Major | lem, v/as born on June 19, 1813, in 
Ebenezer Lockwood, was born | the very house in which he always 
at Poundridge June 27, 1777. | resided and where he died. He is 
He was married to Miss Polly i a son of Isaac and Anna Hart 
Weed, of same place. He died I Purdy. He received a good com- 



JOHN W LOUNSBURY. 




SETH BIRD. 




ISAAC H. PURDY. 




DANIEL C. HICKEY 




HORATIO LOCKWOOD. 







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mon school education, after which 
he, like his father, became a 
farmer. On September 16, 1839, 
Mr. Purdy was married to Miss 
Mary M. Lyon, daughter of Thomas 
Lyon, of Rye, and they lived to- 
gether to enjoy the golden anniver- 
sary of their marriage. One of their 
sons, Isaac Purdy, is now Super- 
visor of the town of North Salem. 
The subject of this sketch began at 
an early age to take an active in- 
terest in public affairs. He was an 
urgent advocate of the building of 
the Harlem Railroad and donated 
land for tracks and buildings. Be- 
sides being quite extensively en- 
gaged in mercantile business, he 
served as postmaster at Purdy Sta- 
tion for fifty years. Notwithstand- 
ing that Mr. Purdy was an uncom- 
promising Democrat, he was elected 
for several terms as Supervisor of 
the Republican town of North Sa- 
lem, serving from 1846 to 1850, and 
from 1857 to 1858. The Purdy home- 
stead, in which Mr. Purdy was 
born, lived and died, came in pos- 
session of the Purdy family in 
1767. At the time the construction 
of the Harlem Railroad was being 
considered what is now known as 
Purdy's Station was this old 
homestead and the mill property, 
known for generations as Purdy's 
mill. There was talk of the rail- 
road going through the town of 
Somers, but the public-spirited Mr. 
Purdy realized the benefits his town 
might derive if the railroad could 
be built through North Salem, and 
as inducement he offered to the 
railroad company all the land 
needed and also subscribed for a 
large amount of railroad stock. His 
first deed of land to the railroad 
company is dated in 1846. Owing 
to his having given the land the 
local railroad station was named 
Purdy's Station, in his honor. 
Much of Mr. Purdy's valuable land 
ho3 been taken recently for the new 
Croton Aqueduct. Mr. Purdy died, 
as stated, in the old homestead on 
November 8, 1891, and. as a local 
newspaper remarked at the time, 
"few men have lived to nearly the 
foi;r-score mark who were called 
into the management of as large 
and varied interests as he, and have 
closed life with as spotless a record 
and a name so highly honored." 



SETH BIRD. 

Seth Bird, a former Supervisor 
of the town of Greenburgh, was 
born in Tarrytown on September 
17, 1814. His parents were Edmund 
and Sarah (Howes) Bird. He is a 
descendant of two of the oldest and 
most prominent families in West- 
chester County. His grandfather, 
Edmund Bird, served throughout 
the revolutionary war and was pro- 
moted on the field, from a drummer 
boy to a major, for hereoic conduct. 
His father took part in the war of 
1812. Mr. Bird, when the Hudson 
River Railroad was being con- 
structed, gave the ground for a sta- 
tion at Tarrytown, on condition 
that the station should be located 
and always kept thereon. He had 
charge of the building of a large 
section of that railroad, from Yon- 
kers to Croton. Mr. Bird was the 
successful candidate of the Ameri- 
can party for Supervisor in 1855 
and 1856. His honesty of purpose 
and ability, displayed in his con- 
tact with men, soon gave him a 
prominent place in public affairs. 
When it was decided to erect the 
present County Court House at 
White Plains Mr. Bird, then of con- 
siderable reputation in that line, 
was selected as the builder. In his 
home village he was greatly re- 
spected and his counsel was sought 
in all matters of public interest. 
In politics Mr. Bird was a Republi- 
can, yet not a politician. The last 
office he held was that of President 
of the village of Tarrytown; this 
position he was urged to accept by 
citizens irrespective of party pol- 
itics. He was elected a member of 
the first Board of Water Commis- 
sioners of the village of Tarrytown 
and was president of that board at 
the time of his death. He was 
chosen one of the trustees of the 
Westchester County Savings Bank, 
in 1864, and was one of the original 
directors of the Tarrytown Na- 
tional Bank. Both positions he 
held at the time of his death. Many 
of the costly churches, as well as 
many of the palatial residences in 
and about Tarrytown, were erected 
under the direction and supervision 
of Mr. Bird. He was married Au- 
gust 26, 1835. to Miss Rebecca Em- 
bree, daughter of Stephen and Han- 



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nah Embree, of Tarrytown. His 
wife died June 5, 1893. His death 
occurred October 20, 1888. 



FRANCIS LARKIN. 

Francis Larkin, a former Super- 
visor, Village President, etc., and 
well and prominently known as the 
Nestor of the Westchester County 
Bar, was born in Sing Sing on Au- 
gust 9, 1820. His father, John Lar- 
kin, came from the neighborhood 
of Belfast, Ireland, and after his 
arrival in this country married 
Elizabeth Knox, who was also born 
in Ireland, near Donegal. The early 
part of Mr. Larkin's life was passed 
on a farm, upon which he worked 
till he attained his majority. After 
teaching school for a while he re- 
solved to study for the legal profes- 
sion, and entered the oflBce of Rich- 
ard R. Voris, Esq., who was a 
prominent lawyer and District At- 
torney of the county. In 1847 he 
was admitted to the bar as attorney 
and counsellor at law. Immediate- 
ly after his admission he estab- 
lished his practice in Sing Sing and 
has continued it to the present time, 
and by strict attention to his duties 
has risen to a position at the very 
head of his profession in Westches- 
ter County and commands the con- 
fidence of a very extended clientage. 
His fame as a lawyer, earned by 
practice in both civil and criminal 
courts, is not confined to this coun- 
ty alone. He is probably as v/ell 
known in other portions of the 
State as he is at home. In public 
affairs, especially in and about his 
town, he has been a leader for 
years and his influence has been 
far-reaching. Among members of 
the profession he is greatly re- 
spected, not only for his learning 
but his disposition to assist young 
lawyers, who, from time to time, 
stand in need of his fatherly ad- 
vice. His kindly disposition has 
prompted him to perform many an 
act that has materially helped his 
fellow-man, acts that were per- 
formed in a quiet, unostentatious 
manner, with no other purpose than 
to be helpful in the hour of need- 
acts that cause him to be remem- 
bered with affection. In politics 
Mr. Larkin is classified as a Re- 



publican. He is not now as active 
in the political arena as he was 
twenty-five years ago. He has held 
the oflices of Trustee and President 
I of the village of Sing Sing and Jus- 
i tice of the Peace, and in 1851 he 
served as the fifth Supervisor of 
the town of Ossining. In 18G4 he 
was the Republican party's nomi- 
nee for Representative in Congress 
in the Tenth District, composed of 
the Counties of Westchester, Rock- 
land and Putnam. He was defeated 
by Hon. William Radford, Demo- 
j crat. Mr. Larkin was married on 
I April 1, 1852, to Miss Sarah E. 
I Hobby, daughter of Ebenezer Hob- 
j by, of New York city. 



JOHN W. LOUNSBURY. 

I John W. Lounsbury, a former 
I Supervisor and village President, 
was born in Flushing, L. I., on 
April 29, 1825, a son of Edward and 
Nancy (Peck) Lounsbury. His 
early life was spent on his father's 
farm, and the only educational ad- 
vantages he enjoyed were those af- 
forded by attendance at the district 
school a few weeks in the winter, 
when his services were not wanted 
on the farm. With his parents he 
removed to Stamford, Conn., where 
the latter formerly resided. He was 
not long at this place when he be- 
came dissatisfied and pined for a 
broader field and opportunity to 
make his fortune. At the age of 
fourteen years he left home and 
went to New York city, where he 
obtained a position as clerk in a 
grocery store, and there remained 
three years. In 1842 Mr. Lounsbury 
left New York and settled in Port 
Chester, determined to accept em- 
ployment of any nature so long as 
it was honest. He was given a 
place in the blacksmith shop of 
William Stivers, and the sturdy lad 
started in with all his will to mas- 
ter the blacksmith trade. That de- 
termination and industry that has 
characterized him ever brought 
success, and at the end of four 
years he was able to buy out his 
employer and continue the busi- 
ness, which he did for five years. 
Disposing of this business he, on 
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the general grocery business that 
proved a success from the start. In 
1854 Mr. Redfield retired and the 
business was conducted by Mr. 
Lounsbury as the sole owner until 
1860, when his brother George was 
admitted as a partner. George 
Lounsbury died in 1889, then the 
firm name was changed to J. W. 
Lounsbury & Sons, as it is at pres- 
ent. For many years Mr. Louns- 
bury has been prominent in the 
politics of the county, a Republican 
of considerable influence, one of ex- 
Judge W. H. Robertson's most 
trusted lieutenants. He was elect- 
ed Supervisor of the town of Rye, 
serving in 1861, and since that year 
has held other town ofiices. He 
was elected a Trustee of the village 
of Port Chester and served in that 
oflBce three years, and subsequently 
was elected President of that vil- 
lage. He is one of the original 
trustees of the Port Chester Free 
Library and Reading Room and at 
present is president of that board. 
He is a director and the vice-presi- 
dent of the First National Bank of 
Port Chester, a director of the 
Westchester Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, a director of the People's 
Bank of Mount Vernon, a director 
of the White Plains, Tarrytown 
and Mamaroneck Electric Railway. 
He is a member of the Masonic 
Order. Mr. Lounsbury was mar- 
ried on December 9, 1849, to Miss 
Jane A. Redfield, daughter of Isaac 
B. Redfield, of Port Chester. Their 
children, Daniel M., Herbert S., and 
Charles E., reside in Port Chester. 
One son, George R., died in 1888, in 
the 37th year of his age. 



DANIEL C. HICKEY. 

Daniel C. Hickey, a former Su- 
pervisor of the town of Eastchester, 
and at the time of his death mem- 
ber of the Democratic State Com- 
mittee for the Sixteenth Congres- 
sional District, was, in the true 
sense of the term, a self-made man, 
who, by his own labor and perse- 
verance, arose from the ranks to a 
high position among men of busi- 
ness. While he was known as a 
leader in the Democratic party and 
ever active to further the interests 
of his political friends, he was bet- 



ter known as one of the most suc- 
cessful railroad contractors in this 
country. He engaged in politics as 
a pastime, a recreation from the 
cares of business, an enjoyment 
that cost him large sums of money, 
as he was not an office seeker for 
himself nor did he expect other pe- 
cuniary reward. He favored good 
men for public office and willingly 
contributed his time and money to 
aid their election. The office of 
Supervisor was forced upon him, 
but he was able to hold it but a 
short time, his private business 
compelling his resignation. In 
1889 Mr. Hickey was chosen as 
Democratic State Committeeman. 
On the evening of December 9, 1890, 
the Democracy of Westchester 
County tendered him a banquet in 
recognition of services rendered his 
party. It was of his achievements 
as a railroad contractor that he was 
most proud; that he had been able 
to accomplish much where other 
contractors had attempted but 
failed. His success in tunnelling 
the Palisades, at Fairview, N. J., 
for the New York, Susquehanna 
and Western Railroad, just com- 
pleted at the time of his death, is 
worthy of special mention owing 
to the fact that others had attempt- 
ed the work and failed with great 
loss of money. The work of put- 
ting through the great tunnel of 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, in 
Pennsylvania, from 1883 to 1887, 
was another success to which he 
was pleased to refer. He was ever 
in demand by the large railroad 
companies, and during his career 
had been engaged in building sec- 
tions if not most of all the great 
lines in the country, and as a re- 
sult he had accumulated a large 
fortune up to the time of his death. 
Mr. Hickey was born in Ireland on 
February 24, 1840, and when eight 
years of age he came with his par- 
ents to America, the family settling 
in Lawrence, Mass. He was a son 
of John and Katherine (Crowe) 
Hickey, his mother being a sister 
of Archbishop Crowe, of Ireland. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of Lawrence; was married 
in 1865 to Miss Margaret Clark, of 
Boston; his wife died two years 
later. In 1868 he removed to 
Mount Vernon and engaged exten- 



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sively in public road building. On 
August 1, 1874, Mr. Hickey was 
married to Miss Ellen Elizabeth 
Bird, daughter of Terrance Bird, of 
Metuchin, N. J. Mr. Hickey died 
at Mount Vernon on July 12, 1894. 



JOSHUA G. MANY. 

Joshua G. Many, a former Super- 
visor of the town of Ossining, was 
born in that town, at Sing Sing, on 
August 13, 1836. His parents are 
Thorn and Lydia (Griffith) Many. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of his native village. He 
has for years been engaged in the 
contracting and express business. 
He was married on June 12, 1856, 
to Miss Sarah Raymond, daughter 
of Edward and Margaret Raymond, 
of Sing Sing. Mr. Many is an ac- 
tive Republican and a recognized 
local leader in his party, and being 
of a genial, happy disposition, is 
very popular with everybody. He 
has held the office of Collector of 
Taxes four years, President of the 
village of Sing Sing two years. Su- 
pervisor of his town two years, and 
a member of the Board of Educa- 
tion for the last nine years. 



JOHN J. MAHANBY. 

John Joseph Mahaney, a former 
Supervisor, now Deputy Commis- 
sioner of Jurors, was born at An- 
gelica, N. Y., on August 29, 1842, a 
son of John and Anna Mahaney. 
He was educated in the public 
school of his native town. In 1861 
he enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Fourth New York Volunteer Regi- 
ment and served in the civil war 
four years; made a prisoner by the 
enemy on the battlefield, he was 
confined in Libbey Prison three 
months; next remained eight 
months as a prisoner in Salisbury, 
N. C. From the latter place he 
succeeded in making his escape in 
1864, and on safely reaching the 
Federal lines he was commended 
by General Warren, of the Fifth 
Army Corps, and rewarded for 
bravery displayed by being desig- 
nated as a lieutenant-colonel and 
placed in charge of the Corps Com- 
missary Department. On being 
discharged in 1865, Colonel Maha- 



ney returned to Angelica. He was 
elected a Supervisor of that town 
in 1866. In 1867 he was chosen a 
Town Highway Commissioner and 
was appointed Under Sheriff of his 
county in 1868. In 1873 he removed 
to Sing Sing, having received an 
appointment as a Keeper in the 
State Prison at Sing Sing, in which 
position he served three years, re- 
signing to enter business as a 
prison contractor; for nearly thir- 
teen years he was thus occupied. 
He was elected a Trustee of the vil- 
lage of Sing Sing and served in the 
years 1881-82-83. In 1885 he was 
elected Supervisor of the town of 
Ossining. He removed to Tarry- 
town in 1886, where he now resides. 
During the sessions of the State 
Legislature in 1895 and 1896, Col. 
Mahaney served as Assistant Door- 
keeper of the Assembly. In 1897 
he was appointed Deputy Commis- 
sioner of Jurors, the position he 
now holds. 



JOHN BESSON. 

John Besson, a former Supervisor 
of the town of Greenburgh, was 
born in New York city on January 
21, 1835, a son of John and Jane L. 
(Fowler) Besson, and a lineal de- 
scendant of John Besson, born in 
1750, and of Henry Fowler, of East- 
chester, both of whom won distinc- 
tion by acts of bravery in the war 
of the revolution. He was educated 
In the public schools of New York 
city. He removed to Dobbs Ferry, 
his present place of residence, in 
1868. He was married on Septem- 
ber 14, 1864, to Miss Ellen W. Tay- 
lor, of Dobbs Ferry, daughter of 
Shadrach Taylor, who was Super- 
visor of that town in 1861-62-63. 
Mr. Besson was first elected Super- 
visor in 1886 and served in that 
office until 1892. He has acted as 
Treasurer of the Dobbs Ferry 
School District several years. He 
is president of the Board of Health 
of the village of Dobbs Ferry. In 
politics Mr. Besson is a Democrat 
and recognized as a local leader of 
his party. He is at present engaged 
in the coal and lumber business and 
is considered one of the town's most 
reliable merchants and substantial 
citizens. 



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THEODORE F. TOMPKINS. 

Theodore F. Tompkins, a former 
Supervisor of tlie town of York- 
town, was born in that township on 
December 31, 1854, and was the 
only son of the late John B. Tomp- 
kins, who was well-known in this 
county. He had the advantages of 
a liberal education, being graduated 
from the Hudson River Institute, at 
Claverack, N. Y. He has always 
resided in the town of his birth. 
On October 19, 1876, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Mary Emma Fountain, 
daughter of Dr. Hosea Fountain 
and Mary H. Fountain, of York- 
town. Mr. Tompkins is a Repub- 
lican and as such has been elected 
to several offices by his townsmen. 
He served two terms as Town Clerk 
and two years as Supervisor. Dur- 
ing sessions of the Board of Super- 
visors he was considered one of the 
most attentive and diligent mem- 
bers, ever on the alert to care for 
the best interests of his town, 
which, owing to his popularity, he 
was well able to serve. Mr. Tomp- 
kins filled the office of postmaster 
for four years, under President 
Harrison. He was again appointed 
postmaster in June, 1898, by Presi- 
dent McKinley. He has been treas- 
urer of the Yorktown Agricultural 
Society for five years. He is en- 
gaged in mercantile business at 
Yorktown Heights. 



JOHN KNOX. 

John Knox, a former Supervisor, 
was born in the town of Bedford 
on July 25, 1828, a son of Robert 
K. and Ruth (Smith) Knox. He 
was educated at Union Academy, in 
his native town. He chose the oc- 
cupation of a farmer and has fol- 
lowed it with considerable success. 
In 1855 he was married to Miss 
Sarah E. Beyea, daughter of "Wright 
M. Beyea and Eliza Whitlock, 
daughter of J. D. Whitlock, of 
Whitlockville. He has resided in 
the town of his birth all his days. 
Besides serving his town as Super- 
visor he has filled the office of Jus- 
tice of the Peace for twenty years; 
he is a member of the Town Board 
and a member of the town Board of 
Health. He is an active member 
of the Republican party and fre- 
quently attends as a delegate his 
party's conventions. For thirty- 
nine years he acted as general 
agent of the Harlem Railroad at 
Katonah Station; at the same time 
he carried on an extensive coal and 
lumber business, kept the only liv- 
ery business at the station and 
managed his farm of three hundred 
acres. He is one of the original 
members of the Bedford Farmers' 
Club. 



150 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Present Sheriff and Deputies. 



William V. Molloy, New Roclielle, Sheriff. 



Justus A. B. Cowles, of Rye, Attorney. 

John McNally, Sing Sing, Under Sheriff. 

William H. Johnson, Port Chester, Deputy SherilT and Jailer. 

Charles 11. Flandreau, Mount Vernon, Deputy Sheriff and 

Clerk. 
John R. Breese, White Plains, Deputy Sheriff. 
John N. Studwell, Port Chester, Deputy Sheriff. 
Stephen L. Hart, Peekskill, Deputy Sheriff. 
Philip Kuss, Yonkers, Deputy Sheriff. 
Daniel A. Molloy, New Kochelle, Deputy Sheriff. 
Jeremiah J. Moore, Mount Vernon, Deputy Sheriff. 
Irving J. Loder, Somers Center, Deputy Sheriff. 



Present Register of Deeds and Staff. 



Thomas R. Hodge, Mount Vernon, Register. 



WiUiam A. Guinand, Mount Kisco, Deputy Register. 

Frank P. Crasto, Mount Vernon, Bookkeeper. 

Francis H. Hessels, White Plains, Index Clerk. 

Edward C. Dunning, Jr., White Plains, Clerk. 

Charles R. Madden, Sing Sing, Recording Clerk. 

Warren A. Martin, Port Chester, Recording Clerk. 

Stephen M. Remain, New Roclielle, Recording Clerk. 

Henry J. Staab, Tuckahoe, Recording Clerk. 

Edward J. Hearne, Peekskill, Recording Clerk. 

Twelve additional clerks are temporarily employed in the Regis- 
ter's office making new indices, per order of the Board of Supervis- 
ors. 



Present County Treasurer and Assistants. 

Fkancis M. Carpenter, Mount Kisco, County Treasurer. 

Samuel C. Miller, White Plains, Deputy Treasurer. 
Leonard E. Teed, Goldens Bridge, Clerk. 



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Surrogate's Court, 



Theodore H. Silkman, Yonkers, Surrogate. 



Leslie Sutherland, Yonkers, Surrogate's Clerk. 

Isaac H. Smith, Peekskill, Stenographer. 

I. Sumner Burnstine, Yonkers, Transfer Tax Assistant. 

George H. Peene, Yonkers, Eecord Clerk. 

Wallace Dutcher, Peekskill, Eecording Clerk. 

Lemuel Fisher, Mount Pleasant, Assistant Recording Clerk. 

James Flanagan, New Eochelle, Index and Accounting Clerk. 

William S. Ferguson, Yonkers, Court Officer. 



Present County Clerk and Deputies. 



Leveeett F. Crumb, Peekskill, County Clerk. 



Charles J. F. Decker, Croton Falls, Deputy County Clerk. 

Robert Coward, Port Chester, Special Deputy Clerk. 

Frank Montross, Peekskill, Special Deputy and Naturahzation 

Clerk. 
A. R. Stainach, White Plains, Special Deputy and Index Clerk. 
H. R. Free, Peekskill, Special Deputy and Index Clerk. 
Miss K. A. Halpin. Yonkers, Stenographer. 



County Law Library. 



COURT HOUSE, WHITE PLAINS. 



Frederick F. Miller, White Plains, Librarian. 



Court House Janitor, Watcliman, etc. 



Thomas Zimmerman, White Plains, Janitor. 
John Anderson, White Plains, Assistant Janitor. 
Mrs. Mary E. Loy, White Plains, Janitress. 
Thomas J. Casey, White Plains, Night Watchman. 



152 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Incorporated Villages in the County. 

Population 
Name of Village. Incokpokatld. JA^UAKy, 1898. 

Ardsley, in town of Greenburgh 1896 372 

Bronxville, in town of Eastchester. . . 1898 391 

Croton, in town of Cortlandt 1898 1,24-1 

Dobbs Ferry, in town of Greenburgh . 1873 2,8-10 

Hastings, in town of Greenburgh. . . 1879 1,712 

Irvington, in town of Greenburgh .. . 1872 2,013 

Larehmont, in town of Mamaroneck. 1891 711 
Mamaroneck, in town of Mamaroneck 

and Rye 1895 3,729 

Mount Kisco, in town of Bedford and 

New Castle 1875 1,374 

New Eochelle, in town of New Ro- 

chelle 1858 12,297 

NorthPelham, intown of Pelham... 1896 627 
North Tarrytown, in town of Mount 

Pleasant 1875 4,011 

Pelham, in town of Pelham 1896 142 

Pelham Manor, in town of Pelham. . 1891 436 

Peekskill, in town of Cortlandt 1827 9,496 

Pleasantville, in town of Mount 

Pleasant 1897 1,181 

Port Chester, in town of Rye 1868 7,257 

Sing Sing, in town of Ossining 1813 8,160 

Tarrytown, in town of Greenburgh. . 1870 4,674 

White Plains,in town of White Plains 1866 7,363 

The locality now known as Port Chester adopted, on April 23, 
1823, the name of Saw-Pit. The change to Port Chester was made 
March 11, 1837. West Mount Vernon and Central Mount Vernon 
were incorporated as a village in 1869 and consolidated with the 
village of Mount Vernon in 1875. 

Cities in the County. 

NAMR. CHAHTERED. POPrLATION. 

Yonkers, in town of Yonkers 1872 40,000 

Mount Vernon, in town of Mount Vernon. . . 1892 23,000 

Yonkers was incorporated as a village on April 12, 1855. and 
chartered as a city on June 1, 1872. Mount Vernon was incor- 
porated as a village on Dec. 13, 1853, and received a city charter on 
]\rarch 12, 1892. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 153 



Present Supervisors EepreseDting the Several Towns. 

Following is a list of Supervisors representing the several towns 
in the County of Westchester for 1898-99: 

Bedford, Isaac W. Turner, Katonah. 
Cortlandt, James H. Haight, Peekskill. 
Eastchester, Herbert D. Lent, Tuckahoe. 
Greenburgh, Alexander McClelland, Dobbs Ferry. 
Harrison, George T. Gray, White Plains. 
Lewisboro, James F. Lawrence, South Salem. 
Mamaroneck, Charles M. Baxter, Mamaroneck. 
Mount Pleasant, Moses W. Taylor, Neperan. 
Mount Vernon, First Ward, Edward W. Storms, Mount Vernon. 
Mount Vernon, Second Ward, Stephen Vp Tassell, Mount 
Vernon. 

Mount Vernon, Third Ward, Charies C. Bigelow, Mount 

Vernon. 
Mount Vernon, Fourth Ward, Albert S. Jenks, Mount Vernon. 
Mount Vernon, Fifth Ward, Edgar K. Brown, Mount Vernon. 
New Castle, Joseph 0. Miller, Mount Ivisco. 
New Rochelle, Michael J. Dillon, New Rochelle. 
North Castle, Joseph B. See, Valhalla. 
North Salem, Isaac Purdy, Purdy's Station, 
Ossining, Gilbert M. Todd, Sing Sing. 
Pelham, John M. Shinn, Pelham Manor. 
Poundridge, George I. Euscoe, Scott's Corners. 
Eye, Charies Eldredge, Port Chester. 
Scarsdale, Chauncey T. Secor, White Plains. 
Somers, S. M. Lounsberry, West Somers. 
White Plains, Frank G. Schirmer, White Plains. 
Yonkers, First Ward, W. H. Greenhalgh, Yonkers. 
Yonkers, Second Ward, Hall B. Waring, Yonkers. 
Yonkers, Third Ward, Edgar A. Forsyth, Yonkers. 
Yonkers, Fourth Ward, Thomas A. Browne, Yonkers. 
Yonkers, Fifth Ward, Edward J. Earl, Yonkers. 
Yonkers, Sixth Ward, Patrick Whalen, Yonkers. 
Yonkers, Seventh Ward, Walter B. Dixon, Mount Vernon. 
Yorktown, Edward B. Kear, Yorktown Heights. 



154 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Clerks of the Several Towns. 



Bedford, William B. Adams, Bedford Station. 
Cortlandt, S. Allen Mead, Peekskill. 
Eastchester, William J. Fisher, Tuckahoe. 
Greenburgh, E. H. Purdy, Tarrytown. 
Harrison, Frank P. Cox, Harrison. 
Lewisboro, Frederic Howe, Cross River. 
Mamaroneck, John C. Fairehild, Maniaroneck. 
Mount Pleasant, J. Benedict See, North Tarrytown. 
New Castle, Orin P. Barnes, Chappaqua. 
New Eochelle, Augustine Smith, New Rochelle. 
North Castle, Charles McDonald, Armonk. 
North Salem, Albert J. Lobdell, Salem Centre. 
Ossining, Robert T. Dennis, Sing Sing. 
Pelham, Patrick J. Marvel, North Pelham. 
Poundridge, William Jones, Poundridge. 
Rye, George Grandison, Port Chester. 
Scarsdale, Joseph C. Morrell, White Plains. 
Somers, Stephen F. Lane, Somers Centre. 
White Plains, Lewis C. Piatt, White Plains. 
YorktouTi. Merritt L. Peet, Yorktown Sta.tion. 



City Clerks. 



Mount Vernon, William H. Hoyt, Mount Vernon. 
Yonkers, John Pagan, Yonkers. 



Tax Eeceivers in the County. 



Bedford, George W. Gardner, Bedford Station. 

Cortlandt, Frank Wessels, Peekskill. 

Eastchester, Joseph Silk, Tuckahoe. 

Greenburgh, Augustus Travis, Ardsley. 

Harrison, Michael H. White, Purchase. 

Le^visboro, Charles L. Mills, Boutonville. 

Mamaroneck, John C. Kane, Mamaroneck. 

Mount Pleasant, George Sinnot, Jr., North Tarrytown. 

Mount Vernon, John H. Brett, Mount Vernon. 

New Castle, David C. Kipp, Sing Sing. 

New Rochelle, M. B. Valentine, New Rochelle. 



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North Castle, Joseph J. Johnson, Armonk. 
North Salem, Friend J. Palmer, Brewster. 
Ossining, J. Wm. Myers, Sing Sing. 
Pelham, John L. Logan, Pelham. 
Poundridge, Elbert Bnrhite, Poundridge. 
Eye, Thc>mas Jordan, Port Chester. 
Scarsdale, Gilbert M. Dobbs, Scarsdale. 
Somers, Nelson Thorne, West Somers. 
White Plains, E. G. Sutherland, White Plains. 
Yonkers, Henry B. Archer, Yonkers. 
Yorktown, L. H. Baker, Kitchewan. 

Taxes for 1897 were confirmed by the Board of Supervisors of 
Westchester County on March 18, 1898. 



Assessments and Taxation. 



According to the report of the Committee on Equalization of 
Assessments, submitted to the Board of Supervisors and adopted on 
March 8, 1898, the total assessment of real and personal property in 
Westchester County for the year 1897 reaches an aggi-egate of 
$192,00-1,467, of which $167,969,356 is the assessment of real prop- 
erty, and $24,035,111 of personal property. Compared with the 
year 1896, there is an increase of $73,575,727 in the assessment of 
real estate, and $20,816,203 of personal property, making a total in- 
crease of $94,191,930. This large increase is attributed, it is 
claimed, to a more conscientious compliance with the requirements 
of the statute regarding the methods of assessments. Notwith- 
standing that the several Boards of Town Assessors, under instruc- 
tions from the courts, have put forth heroic efforts in endeavors to 
get upon the assessment books, during the past year, all property, 
real and personal, at full value, it is claimed that the result is not 
altogether satisfactory, especially, as to personal property, which is 
difficult to reach for the reason that a great portion of said property 
usually is intangible, easily concealed and past finding out, be the 
Assessor ever so determined to do his duty. As has been said: "It is 
a melancholy reflection that in this Christian age, neither the mem- 
ory of early moral training nor present religious profession, hopes or 
fears for the hereafter, the penalties of the law, nor any other pos- 
sible considerations are sufficient to restrain the average possessor of 
personal property from forcing other men to pay the taxes for which 
he is justly I'able, by methods unquestionably immoral, if not abso- 
lutely criminal." 



156 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



National Banks Located within the County. 



The following are the banks of deposit, discount and circula- 
tion located in the several cities and villages of Westchester County, 
together with names of their officers and the dates on which the 
banks were organized. 

Dobbs Ferry Bank, Dobbs Ferry, Nov. 5, 1890; James De Witt 
Wilde, President; B. L. Wallace, Cashier. 

Mamaroneck Bank, Mamaroneck, July 28, 1891; Bradford 
Ehodes, President; K. G. Brewer, Cashier. 

Mt. Kisco National Bank, Mount Kisco, Dec, 1895; T. Ellwood 
Carpenter, President; William H. Moore, Cashier. 

Bank of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, May 25, 1885; G. 
Rogers, President; Jesse Lantz, Cashier. 

Peoples' Bank, Mount Vernon, Sept. 24, 1889; C. L. McClellan, 
President; Theodore F. Nesbitt, Cashier. 

Bank of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, July 23, 1888; W. W. 
BiBsell, President; H. J. Van Zelm, Cashier. 

Westchester County National Bank, Peekskill; as a State bank 
May 27, 1833; as a national bank July 11, 1865; C. A. Pugsley, Pres- 
ident; George I. Ferguson, Cashier. 

First National Bank, Port Chester, May 9, 1864; R. H. Burd- 
sall. President; J. N. Wilcox, Cashier. 

First National Bank, Sing Sing, April, 1864; Henry C. Nelson, 
President; R. S. Lockwood, Cashier. 

Tarrytowm National Bank, Tarrytown, Feb. 8, 1882; Robert A. 
Patterson, President; William D. Humphrey, Cashier. 

Central Bank of Westchester County, White Plains, Oct. 16, 
1828; W. H. Albro, President; H. E. Foster, Cashier. 

White Plains Bank, White Plains, March 15, 1893; David 
Cromwell, President; Charles Prophet, Cashier. 

First National Bank, Yonkers, Aug. 10, 1854; William H. 
Doty, President; Wallis Smith, Cashier. 

Citizens' National Bank, Yonkers, Dec. 5, 1872; Charles E. 
Waring, President; John H. Keeler, Cashier. 

Westchester Trust Company, Yonkers, April 7, 1898: John 
Hoag, President; Charles P. Marsden, Jr., Secretary. 



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Savings Banks in the County. 



The savings banks located in the county, incorporated by acts 
of Legislature, on dates here given, are as follows: 

Eastchester Savings Bank, Mount Vernon, May 8, 1871. 

Greenburgh Savings Bank, Dobbs Ferry, May 8, 1869. 

Union Savings Bank of Westchester County, Mamaroneck, 

May 10, 1887. 
Peeksldll Savings Bank, Peekskill, April 18, 1859. 
Port Chester Savings Bank, Port Chester, March 14, 1865. 
Sing Sing Savings Bank, Sing Sing, April 2, 1859. 
Westchester County Savings Bank, Tarrytown, July 21, 1853. 
Home Savings Bank, White Plains, May 1, 1869. 
Yonkers Savings Bank, Yonkers, April 13, 1854. 
Peoples' Savings Bank, Yonkers, May 4, 1868. 



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Present Officials of the County. 



BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



JACKSON O. DYKMAN. 

Jackson O. Dykman, Supreme 
Court Justice, was born In the town 
of Patterson. Putnam County, N. 
Y., on May 15, 1826. His early years 
were spent upon a farm, and like 
most farmers' sons, attended school 
when opportunity offered. That he 
made good use of his time while at 
school is proved by the fact that he, 
at an early age, was able to get em- 
ployment as a teacher in a public 
school. He studied law In the office 
of Congressman William Nelson, at 
Peekskill, where so many of West- 
chester County's bright young men 
received their start in the legal pro- 
fession. As the average young law- 
yers of that day, he took readily to 
active politics. In 1860 he was 
elected School Commissioner of his 
native county and served until 1863. 
In 1862 he was elected District At- 
torney of Putnam County. At the 
expiration of his term in th^ latter 
office, in 1866, he removed to West- 
chester County, becoming a resi- 
dent of White Plains. He was 
elected a School Trustee, District 
No. 1, White Plains, in 1867, and 
served three years. In the fall of 
1868 Mr. Dykman was elected Dis- 
trict Attorney of Westchester Coun- 
ty on the Democratic ticket and 
continued in office until 1872. In 
1875 he received an Independent 
Democratic nomination for Justice 
of the Supreme Court for the Sec- 
ond Judicial District, and on the 
same day he also received a nomi- 
nation from the Republican party. 
He was elected by a large majority 
over Abraham B. Tappen, the reg- 
ular Democratic nominee. This 
election is remembered as one of 
the most exciting ever held in the 
district over the choice of a Su- 
preme Court Justice. The regular 
Democratic candidate for the office 
had already served one term and 



sought a re-election; his nomina- 
tion had dissatisfied certain Demo- 
crats, particularly those from 
Orange County and immediate vi- 
cinity, who claimed that their 
rights had been time and again 
Ignored in making nominations for 
this position, until patience had 
ceased to be a virtue. It was this 
dissatisfied element that prevailed 
upon Mr. Dykman to permit the use 
of his name, and it was this Demo- 
cratic faction which first nominated 
him. In 1889 Justice Dykman was 
re-elected to another term of four- 
teen years, with little or no oppo- 
sition. In the performance of his 
official duties Justice Dykman has 
ever been patient, affable and cour- 
teous, a favorite with both lawyers 
and suitors. Being of a kind, gentle 
nature his sympathy is easily 
aroused. He has been a member of 
the general term of the Supreme 
Court from the time he took his 
seat on the bench. In 1896 Justice 
Dykman, having reached the age 
limit, was retired, but at the com- 
mencement of each year, since, the 
Governor has, by assignment, re- 
turned him to the bench, and to the 
full exercise of all judicial powers 
of a Supreme Court Judge, as here- 
tofore. In 1897 members of the 
Westchester County Bar Associa- 
tion, together with other friends, 
caused to be painted and hung in 
the Court Chamber of the County 
Court House, at White Plains, a 
life-size portrait of Justice Dyk- 
man. Justice Dykman was married 
to Miss Emily L. Trowbridge, 
daughter of Alexander Trowbridge, 
of Peekskill, on May 15, 1850. Mrs. 
Dykman died at her home in White 
Plains in 1896. Eight children were 
the result of this union. Of that 
number two only remain — William 
N. Dykman, of Brooklyn, and 
Henry T. Dykman, of White Plains, 
both lawyers. 



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159 



THEODORE H. SILKMAN. 

Theodore Hannibal Silkman, Sur- 
rogate, was born in the city of New 
York on March 25, 1858, and is the 
only son of James Baily and Har- 
riet Van Cortlandt (Crosby) Silk- 
man. He has always been a resi- 
dent of the county, although not a 
native of it. In the maternal as in 
the paternal line he comes from old 
Westchester stock, the Crosby fam- 
ily having been settled in the coun- 
ty from a comparatively early colo- 
nial period. The celebrated Enoch 
Crosby, of the revolution, immor- 
talized in Cooper's "Spy," was a 
member of this Crosby family, and, 
as he married a Baily, was likewise 
of kin to Judge Silkman's collateral 
ancestors on the paternal side. The 
maternal grandfather of Judge Silk- 
man was Rev. Alexander H. Crosby, 
rector of St. John's Episcopal 
Church, of Yonkers, and his ma- 
ternal great-grandfather was Darius 
Crosby, of Scarsdale, a lawyer, who 
held the position of Master of Chan- 
cery and other oflBces in Westches- 
ter County in 1812. The early boy- 
hood of Theodore H. Silkman was 
Bpent in the town of Lewisboro. In 
1867 he removed with his parents to 
Yonkers, where he has since re- 
sided. He attended the academy of 
Rev. R. Montgomery Hooper (Yon- 
kers) until the age of fifteen. It 
had been the intention of his father 
to send him to Yale, but this was 
prevented by limited financial 
means of the family. Leaving the 
academy, he entered his father's 
law office in New York city. After 
remaining there two years he be- 
came a clerk with his uncle's law 
firm, Lockwood & Crosby (Levi A. 
Lockwood and Darius G. Crosby), 
also located in New York. Here he 
applied himself with great deter- 
mination and industry to the mas- 
tery of the details of legal proceed- 
ings, working early and late, and so 
familiarizing himself with every 
phase of the business of the office 
that he was soon considered indis- 
pensable to its transaction. Unlike 
the ordinary office student of law, 
his preparation for entering upon 
the profession was very little in the 
line of reading or of elaborate study 
of the minutiae of legal science; 
Indeed, his active labors in the 



practical concerns of the office left 
him almost no time for formal 
study of any kind, and when he 
came to be examined for admission 
to the bar his preparation as to 
general principles was confined to 
such reading as he could do on the 
eve of the occasion. He was abie, 
however, to pass a satisfactory ex- 
amination in all the brancnes of the 
subject. He was admitted to prac- 
tice in May, 1879, Wiieil he had just 
completed his twenty-first year. He 
continued with Lockwoou & Crosby 
until the death of Mr. Lockwood, in 
1883, when the firm was reorgan- 
ized under the name of Silkman & 
Seybel (Daniel E. Seybel), Mr. 
Crosby being its senior member, al- 
though his name did not appear. 
The business of the new firm in- 
creased so rapidly that in 1885 it 
was again reorganized, Mr. Joseph 
Fettretch being admitted, and the 
style being changed to Fettretch, 
Silkman & Seybel, under which it 
still continues. Mr. Crosby re- 
mained with it, as senior partner, 
until his death, in January, 1897. 
It is now one of the very well- 
known legal partnerships of New 
York city, conducting a large gen- 
eral practice which is especially im- 
portant in the departmeu. of the 
management of estates. Mr. Silk- 
man has always been active and 
prominent as a citizen of Yonkers. 
From boyhood he has taken an in- 
terest in politics as a supporter of 
the principles of the Republican 
party, never failing to vote at any 
election or a primary. He has fre- 
quently been a delegate to local, 
county and State conventions. 
From 1884 to 1897 he held the posi- 
tion of United States Commissioner 
for the city of Yonkers, by appoint- 
ment from Circuit Judge Wallace. 
For six years (1891-97) he served as 
a Police Commissioner of the city, 
most of the time being president c^ 
the board. In 1894 he was nomi- 
nated by the Republican convention 
for Surrogate of the county, to lead 
what was supposed to be a forlorn 
hope against the Hon. Owen T. 
Coffin, who had been the incumbent 
of the office for twenty-four consec- 
utive years. He was elected by a 
majority of 4,000, leading all the 
candidates on his party ticket. In 
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of Surrogate is of peculiar import- 
ance, owing to the unusually large 
relative wealth which centers in it. 
As an instance of this, the county 
Btands third in the amount of trans- 
fer (inheritance) taxes collected, 
being surpassed in that respect only 
by New York and Kings Counties, 
although several other counties 
(those containing the large cities of 
Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Utica 
and Albany) exceed it in popula- 
tion. In the administration of the 
very extensive and important legal 
business resulting from this condi- 
tion, Judge Silkman has made a 
highly creditable record. During 
his three and one-half years of 
service not one of the decisions ren- 
dered by him has been reversed on 
appeal. He has also remodeled the 
Surrogate's oflBce, introducing mod- 
ern methods of keeping records and 
Indices, through which the work of 
reference has become very much 
simplified and the risk of destruc- 
tion has been greatly lessened. He 
continues his connection with his 
New York firm, devoting to its af- 
fairs such time as he can spare 
from his ofiicial duties. Previously 
to becoming Surrogate his services 
were frequently in request as ref- 
eree, both by appointment and by 
the consent of counsel. Judge Silk- 
man is at present (1898) president 
of the Westchester County Bar As- 
sociation, having succeeded Hon. 
William H. Robertson in that posi- 
tion in 1897. He has served as pres- 
ident of the City Club, of Yonkers; 
Is a member of the Palisade Boat 
Club, has been a vestryman of St. 
John's Episcopal Church for a 
number of years, and is one of the 
managers of St. John's Hospital. 
He is also a member of the Union 
League Club of New York, the New 
York Athletic Club, and the New 
York Riding Club. He was married 
October 4, 1882, to Mary Virginia, 
daughter of Frederic C. Oakley, of 
Yonkers. They have two children 
living — Eleanor, born July 7, 1883, 
and Theodore Frederic, born March 
30, 1885. 



SMITH LENT. 

Smith Lent, County Judge, was 
born in Peekskill on December 1, 
1851, a son of Isaac H. Lent and 



Matilda (McCoy) Lent. When very 
young his parents died and he went 
to reside with an uncle on a farm 
a few miles from Peekskill. He was 
only permitted to attend the public 
school in the winter time, when 
there was but little to do about the 
farm; therefore, his early educa- 
tion was quite limited. When sev- 
enteen years of age he determined 
! upon going out into the world a 
seeker after fortune and fame, de- 
pending only upon his own exer- 
; tions. The plucky boy accepted the 
first employment offered him — that 
of a laborer on a gravel train on the 
New York Central and Hudson 
j River Railroad. While thus em- 
ployed he spent the hours after a 
I day's hard labor in study, until he 
i became eighteen years of age, when 
he left railroading and began teach- 
ing, and continued thus employed 
I three years. He entered the State 
j Normal School at Albany and grad- 
uated therefrom, in February, 1873, 
with special high honors, and as a 
mark of particular favor the presi- 
dent of the college recommended 
him for appointment as vice-prin- 
< cipal of the High School at New 
I Brunswick, N. J., in which position 
he served one year. In 1875 he 
graduated from the Albany Law 
School and was admitted to practice 
at the bar. He established his law 
oflBces at Sing Sing, to which place 
he removed in July, 1875, and where 
he has continued to reside. Judge 
Lent has always been associated 
with the Republican party, for 
years he has been a recognized 
leader of that party in the county, 
I and has received many honors at 
I the hands of his party friends. He 
has held several local offices and 
i was in 1889 his party's candidate 
] for District Attorney, but with 
other nominees of the party he suf- 
' fered defeat; in 1892 he was hia 
j party's unsuccessful candidate for 
member of Assembly; in 1895, when 
a candidate of the same party for 
County Judge, he fared better, and 
i won over one of the strongest can- 
didates the Democratic party could 
name. He is also president of the 
Board of Education in the Sing 
Sing District. Judge Lent was mar- 
ried on July 1, 1879, to Miss Eliza- 
beth Carrick, daughter of Robert 
Carrick, of Albany, N. Y. 




JACKSON O. DYKMAN. 




THEODORE H. SILKMAN. 




SMITH LENT. 




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WILLIAM V. MOLLOY. 




THOMAS R. HODGE. 



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LEVERETT F. CRUMB. 




JOHN SELLS. 




CHARLES E. BIRCH. M.D. 




SAMUEL C. MILLER. 




JOSEPH B. SEE. 




ISAAC PURDY. 



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GEORGE C. ANDREV/S. 

George Clinton Andrews, District 
Attorney, was born in Rye, this 
county, on December 3, 11^58. A 
son of George and Maria (Clinton) 
Andrews. His great-great-grand- 
father Andrews was the seventh 
man to enter Fort Ticonderoga in 
the famous assault of Colonel 
Ethan Allen in the Revolutionary 
War, and his collateral line in- 
cludes Gov. Andrews, the famous 
"Vv^ar Governor" of Massacnusetts. 
His mother is the daughter of Rich- 
ard Whiley and Anna Maria Beek- 
man, daughter of Stephen D. Beek- 
man and Maria Clinton, fifth 
daughter of Governor George Clin- 
ton. The ancestral line includes 
the distinguished families of the 
Philipses, Clintons, Van Cortlandrs 
and Beekmans. At an early age 
Mr. Andrews, with his parents, re- 
moved to Tarrytown, ^iS present 
place of residence. He was edu- 
cated at the public and private 
schools of Tarrytown, subsequently 
graduating from the Delaware Lit- 
erary Institute, Franklin, N. Y. The 
first public position held by him 
was that of official courc stenogra- 
pher of Rockland County, holding 
the same for ten years. ^±e studied 
medicine to aid in reporting crimi- 
nal cases, and acquired a proficien- 
cy that would have admj.>,i,ed him lo 
practice as a physician. He began 
the study of law, and was admit- 
ted to the bar in 1882, and began 
practice in Tarrytown, where he 
still has an office. As a lawyer he 
won an enviable reputation by his 
successful management of impor- 
tant cases in both the civil and 
criminal courts. His success at- 
tracted the attention of leaders of 
his party, who saw in him a most 
available candidate for District At- 
torney in 1895. His election was 
secured by a handsome majority, he 
running far in advance of his col- 
leagues upon the Republican ticket. 
He was the first of his party to 
hold this office In many years. As 
a District Attorney he has won 
special honors, owing to ability dis- 
played in the discharge of his du- 
ties. At the expiration of his term, 
in 1898, he was renominated by the 
Republican party. He held for sev- 
eral years the offices of counsel for 



the villages of Tarrytown and Irv- 
ington. Mr. Andrews is a member 
of the Masonic fraternity, Sons of 
the Revolution, Royal Arcanum, 
League of American Wheelmen, 
City Club of Yonkers and other so- 
cieties. He was married in 1884 
to Miss Julia Biers, daughter of 
Charles and Charity Biers, of Tar- 
rytown, and has three children, 
Florence B., George Clinton, Jr., 
and Charles B. 



FRANCIS M. CARPENTER. 

Francis Marshall Carpenter, Coun- 
ty Treasurer, was born on July 10, 
1834, at Mount Kisco, in the town 
of New Castle, a son of Zepher and 
Phebe (Marshall) Carpenter. He 
was educated in the district schools 
of his native town and at the Union 
Academy at Bedford. He engaged 
in mercantile pursuits when but 
nineteen years of age, and became 
a partner in a general store at 
Mount Kisco a year later. In 1862 
he disposed of his business and be- 
came engaged in farming, purchas- 
ing the farm on which his child- 
hood days had been spent. 1874 he 
embarked in the retail coal trade in 
New York city. In 1863 Mr. Car- 
penter was elected Supervisor of 
the town of New Castle, and, with 
i the exception of the years 1869 and 
1870, was continued in the office by 
choice of the electors of his town 
up to 1897. He had been elected to 
serve until 1898, but his election as 
County Treasurer required his re- 
signing the Supervisorship and 
leaving a little over one year un- 
filled by him. He has the distinc- 
tion of having been elected Super- 
visor for more years than any 
other man in the State of New 
York. He was chosen chairman of 
the Board of Supervisors in the 
years 1872, 1873, 1894 and 1895. Of 
the Supervisors who were his col- 
leagues in the Board of Supervisors 
during Mr. Carpenter's first year, 
three survive — A. G. Reynolds, of 
Sing Sing; James Wood, of Mount 
Kisco, and William Cauldwell, of 
Morrisania. Mr. Carpenter had 
long been closely identified with 
the moneyed institutions of the 
county in an official capacity, and 
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business methods and sterling in- 
tegrity, when his party, in the fall 
of 1896, decided to make him the 
Republican nominee for County 
Treasurer. His election was con- 
vincing evidence of his popularity. 
Inasmuch as it was gained over one 
of the strongest men in the oppos- 
ing party, one who had already 
filled the office two terms most ac- 
ceptably. Mr. Carpenter has been 
vice-president of the Mount Kisco 
National Bank, at Mount Kisco, 
since its organization, in 1895, and 
has been chosen first vice-president 
of the recently organized Westches- 
ter Trust Company, at Yonkers. 
He has for many years been a 
member of the Bedford Farmers' 
Club. He is the owner of consid- 
erable real estate in different sec- 
tions of the county. Mr. Carpenter 
was married November 24, 1859, to 
Miss Mary B. Miller, daughter of 
John A. Miller, of Bedford. His 
wife died in January, 1885. He was 
again married on March 3, 1887, to 
Mrs. Catherine A. Moger, daughter 
of Hezekiah Raymond, of Mount 
Kisco. 



LEVERETT F. CRUMB. 

Leverett Finch Crumb, County 
Clerk, is a resident of Peekskill and 
was born on November 28, 1859, in 
Matawan, Monmouth County, N. J., 
a son of John W. and Roba (Finch) 
Crumb. When he was six years of 
age his parents removed to Peeks- 
kill, where he has since resided. 
His education was secured in the 
public schools of Peekskill, the 
Peekskill Military Academy and 
the Westchester County Institute. 
He early in life decided to become a 
lawyer, but wisely determined first 
to get a few dollars ahead for use, 
if needed, while he was studying. 
At the age of fifteen years he be- 
came a clerk in the Peekskill Post 
Office, and incidentally entered 
upon what has proven to be a most 
successful political career. Like 
many bright young men of Peeks- 
kill, he began the study of law in 
the office of the late Edward Wells; 
this was in 1878, and in May, 1883, 
he was admitted to practice at the 
bar. He became identified with the 
Republican party and was soon rec- 



ognized as a party leader and prin- 
cipal lieutenant of the late Gen. 
James W. Huested. In April, 1883, 
Mr. Crumb was elected to the posi- 
lion of clerk of the village of 
Peekskill and a year later was also 
chosen Corporation Counsel of the 
village. These two offices he has 
held ever since, having been re- 
elected annually for fifteen years. 
Even political opponents, who rec- 
ognized his special qualifications 
as an executive officer, did not at- 
tempt to remove him from these 
responsible positions when they 
had the power to do so. After a 
committee of citizens had examined 
his accounts and complimented 
him recently, Mr. Crumb tendered 
his resignation of both positions, his 
political opponents, then a majority 
in the Board of Village Trustees, 
unanimously asked him to with- 
draw the same and continue to 
serve until his term of office would 
vjxpire. He was instrumental in or- 
ganizing the Board of Trade of 
Peekskill in 1890, and was chosen 
its first secretary, a position which 
he still holds. Unlike many an as- 
pirant, his first attempt to secure a 
nomination for a county office met 
with success, and at a time when 
his competitors were backed by nu- 
merous following, and in a position 
I to make an exciting canvass. This 
I was in 1895, when he became his 
i party's candidate for County Clerk. 
He was elected by a large majority 
and became the first Republican 
elected to that office in Westchester 
County. His administration of the 
office has been characterized by 
close application to duties and 
great conscientiousness. In 1896 
the County Clerk's office was the 
center of a most bitter and persist- 
ent partisan struggle to prevent his 
printing of the official ballots. In 
the course of this contest thirty- 
two stays, mandamuses and injunc- 
tions were served upon him; but he 
successfully carried out his official 
duty, without violating anj'- of the 
orders of the court, and placed the 
ballots in the hands of the electors 
for the whole county, without 
\ error, on election morning. Mr. 
Crumb is a member of Courtlandt 
Lodge, No. 34, F. and A. M.; Mohe- 
j gan Chapter, No. 221, R. A. M., and 
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42, Knights Templar, of Sing Sing; 
a member of Cryptic Lodge, No. 75, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; 
a member of Bald Eagle Tribe, No. 
264, I. O. R. M.; a member of Har- 
mony Lodge, No. 138, Knights of 
Pythias, and a member of the City 
Club, of Yonkers. He is a trustee 
In the First Baptist Church of 
Peekskill and assistant superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school. On 
April 26, 1888, Mr. Crumb was mar- 
ried to Miss Nellie M. Starr, young- 
est daughter of George S. and Eme- 
llne A. Starr, of Peekskill. 



THOMAS R. HODGE. 

Thomas R. Hodge, Republican, 
County Register of Deeds, was born 
on May 25, 1843, in England, a son 
of John and Mary (Robinson) 
Hodge. When quite young he re- 
moved with his parents to Canada. 
Twenty-eight years ago he decided 
upon becoming a citizen of the 
United States, then he was a resi- 
dent of Eastchester, in this county, 
and engaged in mercantile busi- 
ness. His excellent habits, sterling 
integrity and other evidences of 
firmness of character, soon made 
him popular with his fellow-citi- 
zens, and singled him out as a per- 
son well adapted to hold positions 
of public trust. The first public 
ofiice to which he was elected was 
that of Treasurer of School District 
No. 1, from 1879 to 1882; he was 
School Trustee and secretary of the 
Board of Education from 1882 to 
1891; was Deputy County Treasurer 
from 1880 to 1891; served as Treas- 
urer of School District No. 4, in 
1891-92; was elected an Alderman 
of the city of Mount Vernon, serv- 
ing from 1893 to 1895; on January 
1, 1896, he entered upon the duties 
of his present oflice, his term ex- 
piring January 1, 1899. In this of- 
fice, as in all other positions held 
by him, Mr. Hodge has been most 
faithful, ever at his post of duty. 
No official has ever given the coun- 
ty better service. During his ad- 
administration many needed re- 
forms were effected in the office; 
among them is the new system, in- 
troduced by him, of indexing rec- 
ords filed in the Register's office, 
which greatly simplifies the work 



of searchers and saves time to the 
amount of fifty per cent., consider- 
ing the former mode of procedure. 
Mr. Hodge is a Director of the Peo- 
ple's Bank of Mount Vernon, a 
trustee of the Eastchester Savings 
Bank, treasurer and vestryman of 
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, is a 
past master of Hiawatha Lodge, 
No. 434, F. and A. M.; is a member 
and former high priest of Mount 
Vernon Chapter, No. 228, R. A. M.; 
is a member of Bethlehem Com- 
mandery, K. T., No. 53, a member 
of Nepperhan Council, R. and S. M., 
No. 70, and a member of the Mecca 
Temple. He is also one of the orig- 
inal active members of Steamer 
Engine Company, No. 3, of Mount 
Vernon. Mr. Hodge is unmarried. 



WILLIAM V. MOLLOY. 

William V. Molloy, Sheriff, was 
born in Fleetwood, town of East- 
chester, on November 6, 1856, a son 
of John F. and Sarah (Murray) 
Molloy. His parents, M'ho were 
born in Ireland, came to this coun- 
try in 1850 and on May 2, of that 
year, they removed to New Ro- 
chelle. It was during a temporary 
residence in Fleetwood that Mr. 
Molloy, the subject of this sketch, 
was born. He was educated in the 
public schools of Mamaroneck and 
New Rochelle, the latter village be- 
ing then as now his place of resi- 
dence. For many years he has been 
a contractor, successfully em- 
ployed in the construction of rail- 
roads, highways, etc. In politics he 
Is a Republican and considered one 
of the county leaders of his party. 
He has served his town as an Ex- 
cise Commissioner, as an Assessor 
and for several terms as Supervisor. 
In 1883 he was appointed by Presi- 
dent Harrison as postmaster at 
New Rochelle, in 1897 he was re- 
appointed by President McKinley; 
he resigned the latter office when 
entering upon his duties as Sheriff 
January 1, 1898. Sheriff Molloy is 
a member of Siwanoy Tribe, No. 
335, I. O. R.; a member of Court 
Ivanhoe, No. 191, F. of A.; a mem- 
ber of La Rabida Council, No. 166, 
K. of C; a member of Division No. 
5, A. O. H.; he is an exempt mem- 
ber of Huguenot Fire Engine Com- 



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pany of New Rochelle; a charter 
member of the New Rochelle Yacht 
Club and was a member of the Ad- 
visory Council of the World's Agri- 
cultural Congress in 1893, at the 
World's Fair. 



JOHN SELLS. 

John Sells, Commissioner of Ju- 
rors, was born in the city of Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., on May 21, 1860, a 
son of John W. and Cathrine (Har- 
vey) Sells. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native city. 
In 1884 he removed to Yonkers, his 
present place of residence, and en- 
tered the employ of the Fernbrook 
Carpet Company, continuing with 
them many years and until he re- 
signed his position to accept his 
present office. On May 28, 1888, Mr. 
Sells was married to Miss Lizzie 
McCrone, daughter of Hugh and 
Rachel McCrone, of Philadelphia. 
He has always been a Republican 
and has never before held an elec- 
tive political office, though he has 
received many honors at the hands 
of his party friends. He was elect- 
ed and served as president of the 
Young Men's Republican Club, of 
Yonkers, from 1896 to September, 
1898, and has repeatedly been 
chosen to serve as a delegate to the 
several conventions of his party. 
From a long list of candidates for 
the position he took possession of 
his present office, on April 7, 1897, 
and was prominent in the reorgani- 
zation, on the district plan, of the 
party in the city; for eight years 
was a member of the Republican 
General Committee. 



CHARLES E. BIRCH, M. D. 

Charles Edward Birch, M. D.. 
Coroner, is a Republican, and was 
born in the city of New York on 
February 8, 1863. He is a son of 
John and Mary (Wygnant) Birch. 
When he was six years of age his 
parents removed to White Plains, 
where he has since continued to re- 
side. He attended the public 
schools preparatory to his gradu- 
ation from a State Normal School. 
Graduating from the Normal School 
he taught district school one year, 



at Greenville, while preparing to 
enter the New York Homoeopathic 
Medical College and Hospital. 
While attending college he had the 
distinction of being president of his 
class every year during the four 
he was in attendance. He gradu- 
ated from college with special hon- 
ors. Dr. Birch's first introduction 
as an office holder took place in 
1881, when he was chosen, while 
still a youth, as page of the County 
Board of Supervisors. He was the 
first elected County Librarian, in 
1881, and served in that position 
three years. In 1894 he was ap- 
pointed Health officer of the village 
of White Plains and served two 
years; in 1898 he was again ap- 
pointed. He was chosen Physician 
to the County Jail in 1894, and con- 
tinues in that office up to date. He 
was elected Coroner in 1894 and re- 
elected by an increased majority in 
1897. At the time he was first 
chosen Coroner he was the young- 
est man ever elected to that office 
in the county, as he is certainly 
one of the most active in giving at- 
tention to the duties of his office. 
He has been identified with the Re- 
publican party since becoming of 
age. On November 10, 1892, Dr. 
Birch was married to Miss Marion 
Bentley, daughter of Abram and 
Marion Bentley, of Port Jefferson, 
Long Island. 



JACOB G. MILLER. 

Jacob G. Miller, School Commis- 
sioner for the Second School Com- 
missioner District, was born in 
Boston, Mass., on September 11, 
1852, a son of Peter and Margarette 
Miller. Pie was educated in the 
schools of his native city. He re- 
moved to Sing Sing, his present 
I place of residence, in 1884, where 
I he is engaged in mercantile busi- 
! ness. On April 6, 1881, he was 

■ married to Miss M. Louise Morton, 
: daughter of William and Eliza J. 
i Morton, of Croton-on-the-Hudson. 
' For many years Mr. Miller has been 

an active Republican, but never 

■ held a political office until elected 
I to his present position, in 1896. He 
' is prominent in the Masonic Order, 
: being a member of Kisco Lodge, 
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Buckingham Chapter, No. 174, R. 
A. M.; a member of Peekskill 
Council, No. 55, R. and S. M.; a 
past eminent commander of the 
Westchester Commandery, K. T., 
No. 42; a member of the Mystic 
Shrine, Mecca Temple, New York 
city; is also a member of Sunny- 
side Lodge, No. 289, I. 0. 0. F., and 
a member of Liberty Council, No. 
40, J. O. U. A. M. 



SAMUEL C. MILLER. 

Samuel C. Miller, Deputy County 
Treasurer and President of the vil- 
lage of White Plains, was born Au- 
gust 1, 1848, in the city of Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, and like many other na- 
tives of Ohio, has the qualities that 
are essential In the make-up of a 
good president. He is of American 
parentage, a son of John G. and 
Sarah H. (Corwine) Miller. He re- 
moved to White Plains, with his 
parents, in 1862, and has resided in 
that town continuously thirty-six 
years; was married in April, 1876, 
to Miss Marie B. Antrim, daughter 
of John S. and Hannah Antrim, of 
North Castle. Mr. Miller was post- 
master of White Plains from 1878 
to 1886; was elected a Trustee and 
subsequently was the first elected 
President of the village of White 
Plains, from 1896 to 1898, and re- 
elected in 1898 for two years; was 
appointed Deputy County Register 
in 1896 and Deputy County Treas- 
urer in 1897, which latter office he 
now holds. He, in connection with 
the County Treasurer's office, has 
proven a valued assistant to the 
able County Treasurer; his polite 
attention to visitors having busi- 
ness with the office and his correct 
business methods go far as recom- 
mendations to popular favor. Mr. 
Miller is a prominent Free Mason, 
has served as mnster and in the 
several offices of the White Plains 
Lodge, No. 473, F. & A. M., and last 
year was appointed district deputy 
Grand Master for the district com- 
posed of Westchester and Putnam 
Counties. He is an ardent Repub- 
lican and at present secretary of 
the Republican County Committee, 
and is credited with being one of 
the best executive officers ever in 
the service of the committee. 



CHARLES J. F. DECKER. 

Charles J. F. Decker, Deputy 
County Clerk and Court Clerk, was 
born in New York city December 
24, 1873. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native city. 
He removed to Croton Falls, this 
county, with his parents, in 18S0, 
where he now resides. His parents 
are Charles and Magdeline (Jung) 
Decker. He is unmarried. Mr. 
Decker is in politics a Republican 
and is recognized as a popular 
leader among the younger element 
of the party that is forcing recog- 
nition. He is now serving in his 
first political position. He entered 
the County Clerk's office February 
24, 1896, and became Deputy County 
Clerk on February 5, 1897, to suc- 
ceed Deputy M. James Mooney, who 
died February 4, 1897. Mr. Decker 
is also a member of the Croton 
Falls Baptist Church, a member of 
the Kisco Council, R. A., No. 1562; 
a member of Croton Lodge, No. 368, 
F. and A. M.; of Croton Chapter, 
No. 202, R. A. M.; of Crusaders' 
Commandery, No. 56, K. T.; secre- 
tary of Titticus Cycle Club at Purdy 
Station, and a member of the Cro- 
ton Falls Fire Department, Engine 
Company No. 1. 



HARVEY HUSTED. 

Harvey Husted, Stenographer of 
the Special Term of the Supreme 
Court, was born at North Tarry- 
town, town of Mount Pleasant, 
Westchester County, N. Y., on July 
12, 1854, and is a descendant of one 
of the oldest families in the county. 
His parents were Nathaniel W. and 
Armenia (Palmer) Husted, his 
mother being the daughter of the 
late Harvey Palmer, of Pleasant- 
ville. Mr. Husted attended the 
public school of his native town 
and afterward the Irving Institute, 
and finished his education at the 
Academy at North Greenwich, 
Conn. While acting as bookkeeper 
In his father's office he took up the 
study of stenography and mastered 
the art without the aid of a teacher. 
He held for many years the posi- 
tion of Official Stenographer to the 
County and Surrogate's Courts of 
Westchester County, and has held 



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continuously for the past twenty- 
two years the oflQcial position of 
Steno^apher to the Special Term 
of the Supreme Court. Mr. Husted 
has resided in White Plains, his 
present place of residence, for fif- 
teen years. He was chosen Presi- 
dent of the village of White Plains 
for two years — 1892-93 — and is a 
member of the Board of Education, 
having held that position for more 
than ten years. In politics Mr. 
Husted is a Democrat, because, as 
he says, he cannot help it — he was 
born that way. His modest, genial 
nature is also pleasing to people of 
other political aflBliations and he 
Is, therefore, popular with every- 
body. 



ISAAC H. SMITH. 

Isaac H. Smith, Stenographer of 
the Westchester County Court, was 
born in Phillipstown, Putnam 
County, N. Y., January 13, 1866, 
of American parentage. When he 
was quite young he removed with 
his parents to Peekskill, where his 
home has continued to be. He re- 
ceived his educational training in 
the Peekskill public schools and in 
the Peekskill Military Academy 
At an early age he exhibited special 
skill in his chosen vocation and his 
talents were soon recognized by 
prominent persons v/ho wpre more 
than willing to profit by his clever- 
ness. In 1883 he was appointed 
Strenographer to the County and 
Surrogate's Courts of Ritnam 
County, which position he still re- 
tains. In 1889 he accepted the po- 
sition of Stenographer and Clerk to 
the Ways and Means Committee of 
the State Assembly. In 1890 he was 
chosen oflBcial Stenographer of the 
Assembly. In 1891-92 he acted as 
private secretary to Assemblyman 
General James W. Husted. In 1894- 
95 he was Clerk to the Canal Com- 
mittee and Assistant Stenographer 
to the State Senate. In 1896 he was 
appointed by County Judge Smith 
Lent as Stenographer of the West- 
chester County Court, and by Sur- 
rogate Theodore H. Silkman as 
Stenographer of the Westchester 
County Surrogate's Court, which 
latter positions he now holds. Re- 
cently he was appointed oflBcial 



Stenographer of the County Court 
of Orange County; he is able to 
fill all positions creditably. Mr. 
Smith is a son of Marvin R. and 
Sarah E. (Smith) Smith. He was 
married on December 19, 1889, to 
Miss Lulu E. Williams, daughter of 
Washington and Mary J. Williams. 
of Peekskill. 



B. FRANK PALMER. 

B. Frank Palmer, a former Dep 
uty County Register, was born in 
Mamaroneck on December 13, 1850. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of his native town. He en- 
tered a business life by accepting 
a clerkship in a general store. In 
1870 he was appointed station agent 
of the New York, New Haven and 
Hartford Railroad at Mamaroneck 
and remained in that position ten 
years, until 1880. He was appoint- 
ed Deputy County Register of 
Deeds by Register J. O. Miller, in 
I 18S1, and continued as such until 
j 1890, when the Republicans secured 
t control of the office. In 1893 he was 
i reappointed to the same position by 
; Register W. J. Graney and served 
; until 1896. Owing to his familiar- 
i Ity with the work of the Register's 
office his services have been in de- 
I mand since the year he first entered 
the office, and he has been retained, 
in some capacity, under different 
administrations, for seventeen 
years. In 1885 he received from 
President Cleveland appointment 
as postmaster at Larchmont and 
, served four years. He was again 
! appointed to this office by Presi- 
I dent Cleveland in 1893 for four 
! years, and still holds the position. 
j Mr. Palmer served as a member of 
I the Mamaroneck School District 
' Board of Education twelve years, 
as secretary of the board six years 
and as president of the same body 
six years. He is a prominent Ma- 
son, a member of Huguenot Lodge, 
No. 46, P. and A. M.; a past master 
and past district deputy grand mas- 
ter. He is also a member of the 
Royal Arcanum order. He was 
married in February, 1877, to Miss 
Margaret L. Hopkins, daughter of 
John C. and Jeanette P. Hopkins, 
of New Rochelle. 



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ARMAND R. STAINACH. 

Armand R. Stainach, Court In- 
terpreter and Special Deputy Coun- 
ty Clerk, was born in Castle Kreut- 
berg, Corinthia, Austria, on June 7, 
1817, a son of Henry Count de Stai- 
nach and Countess Thurn Valles- 
assina. He was educated at the 
Imperial Austrian Military Acad- 
emy, at Vienna, and subsequently 
became a civil engineer and sur- 
veyor. He came to the United 
States in 1850, arriving on May 6, 
and became a resident of Brooklyn. 
He spent most of his time between 
the year of arrival and the year 
1852, when he removed to White 
Plains, in travel, visiting all por- 
tions of America, to get acquainted 
with the country and to study its 



people. He remained in White 
Plains until 1856, when he accepted 
a position as civil engineer under 
the Brazilian government, in which 
position he remained until 1860. In 
the latter year he returned to White 
Plains and soon after was appoint- 
ed Index Clerk in the office of the 
County Register of Deeds, serving 
in that position many years, and 
until he accepted the position of 
Special Deputy County Clerk and 
Court Interpreter, which latter po- 
sition he has held since the office 
was created. In politics Mr. Stain- 
ach is a Democrat. He was mar- 
ried November 6, 1860, to Miss Em- 
ilie C. de Bender, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Christina de Bender, of 
New York city. 



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LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS. 



WILLIAM L. WARD. 

William Lukens Ward, member 
of Congress, was born in Green- 
wich, Conn., on September 2, 1856, 
and is a son of William E. and 
Louise (Lukens) Ward. He was 
educated at the Friends' Seminary, 
New York city, and at Columbia 
College. After graduating he em- 
barked in the manufacturing busi- 
ness, in connection with the firm 
of Russell, Burdsall & Ward, the 
most extensive bolt manufacturers 
in the United States, if not in the 
world, and of w^hich firm the father 
of the subject of this sketch is one 
nf the principal members. In 1882 
Mr. Ward, associated with others, 
succeeded in establishing at Port 
Chester, in this county, a similar 
manufacturing business, that has 
grown steadily until now it is near- 
ly of as much importance as the 
parent concern, of which it is inde- 
pendent. The business done at the 
new establishment has reached 
such a magnitude that the constant 
presence of Mr. Ward is actually 
necessary about the works; for that 
reason the time devoted to his Con- 
gressional duties at Washington Is 
a great personal sacrifice made on 
the altar of duty, as required by 
good citizenship. While a zealous 
Republican and for many years 
representing the town of Rye in the 
Republican County Committee, Mr. 
Ward never thought he had the 
time to spare from his business to 
devote to office holding. It was not 
until 1886 that he yielded to his 
friends and consented to become 
the party's candidate for Presiden- 
tial Elector. In that same year he 
was, most unexpectedly to himself, 
nominated to represent his county 
in Congress. His double nomina- 
tion presented the unusual spectacle 
of having one man's name appear 
twice upon the same ballot as can- 
didate for two important national 
offices. He was elected to both po- 
sitions. In Congress Mr. Ward was 



particularly favored, considering 
his inexperience as a new member. 
He was given a place on many of 
the most important committees and 
recognized as one of the most val- 
ued working members of that pop- 
ular branch of the nation's legisla- 
ture. That he had the confidence of 
President McKinley also contrib- 
uted to his popularity. Mr. Ward 
was married September 15, 1880, to 
Miss Madge Leland, daughter of 
Warren Leland, of Long Branch. 



J. IRVING BURNS. 

James Irving Burns, State Sena- 
tor, was born in Biddeford, Me., on 
August 10, 1843, a son of Jeremiah 
and Aphia Burns. His ancestors, 
who early came to America, were 
Scotch on his father's and English 
on his mother's side. As pioneers 
they took a prominent part in the 
development of the country, and are 
recorded as actively participating 
In the war of the revolution, his 
great-grandfather being master me- 
chanic and having charge of the 
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H., 
at the time of the building of the 
United States warship Constitution. 
When he was quite young Mr. 
Burns's parents removed to Yon- 
kers. He was educated at Wiswell's 
Academy, at Yonkers; at Colgate 
University, and at Union College, 
graduating from the latter. Subse- 
quently he acquired a general busi- 
ness knowledge. He secured a 
clerkship in the Treasury Depart- 
ment at Washington, D. C, during 
which service he became a student 
at Columbia College Law School, 
finishing the course, and on gradu- 
ating received the degree of LL. B.; 
later he received the honorary de- 
gree of A. M. from Colgate Univer- 
sity. In 1871 he received an im- 
portant appointment in the New 
York Custom House, under Col- 
lector Arthur. He was for some 
years trustee, secretary and treas- 




W. L. WARD. 




J. IRVING BURNS. 




WILLIAM J. GRANEY 



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urer of the Rutgers Female College. 
He took an active interest in pol- 
itics in New York City and was a 
member of the Republican Central 
Committee. Then he again became 
a resident of Yonkers. Having been 
an active Republican since the time 
he was entitled to vote, he was not 
long in acquiring a prominent place 
among the leaders of his party in 
Yonkers and in the county at large. 
He served several years as chair- 
man of the Republican City Com- 
mittee and as member of the Re- 
publican County Committee. He 
has regularly attended as delegate 
the State and other conventions of 
his party. He was elected an Al- 
derman of his city for the years 
1884-85, declining a re-election. He 
also served as School Trustee. In 
the fall of 1886 he was the unani- 
mous choice of his party as candi- 
date for member of Assembly, and 
was elected in a district largely 
Democratic. He served in this po- 
sition during the years of 1887, 1888, 
1890 and 1895. His successful rec- 
ord in the Legislature won for him 
the confidence and support of his 
constituents, and in the contest for 
the nomination for State Senator 
for the term of three years under 
the new Constitution, he defeated 
his opponents and was named on 
the second ballot. He was elected 
by a large majority, leading his 
ticket, and served in the Senate 
during the years 1896, 1897 and 
1898. In both the Assembly and 
Senate he was appointed upon the 
most important committees and 
had the reputation of constancy 
and faithfulness. He was instru- 
mental in introducing and placing 
upon the statutes many important 
laws. His course has demanded the 
respect of all fair-minded people, 
though they be political opponents, 
for the reason that his support has 
always been given on the side of 
morality, progress and education. 
In season and out of season he has 
been a strong advocate of all meas- 
ures that promise to advance the 
Interests of his county, and. as a 
consequence, his constituents. On 
October 8, 1898, he received his 
party's nomination for Representa- 
tive in Congress. Mr. Burns is 
president of the Spring Creek and 
Mining Company, South Dakota; 



publisher of the X. Y. Z. Railroad 
and Steamboat Guide; vice-presi- 
dent of the Economical Printing 
Company, New York, and director 
of the District Messenger Company, 
Yonkers, N. Y. He is a member of 
the D. K. E. Club, New York; of the 
City and Palisade Clubs, and chair- 
man of the Executive Committee of 
the Republican Central Committee, 
of Yonkers. He was married at 
Hamilton, N. Y., September 29, 
1869, to Mary C. Russell, and has 
two children — Irving Russell and 
Gertrude Louise. 



JARED SANDFORD. 

Jared Sandford, member of As- 
sembly for the First Assembly Dis- 
trict, was born in Seneca County, 
N. Y., about sixty years ago, and is 
a son of Gen. Halsey Sandford. 
Chancellor Lewis H. Sandford was 
one of his uncles, another being Ed- 
ward Sandford, a leader of the New 
York bar. While still a young man 
Mr. Sandford was elected County 
Clerk of Seneca County, an oflSce 
which he filled with marked suc- 
cess. He afterward served as Ser- 
geant-at-Arms of the Assembly. 
His education was obtained in the 
public schools and at the Ovid 
Academy, from which institution 
he graduated. Subsequently he took 
a course in the New York Univer- 
sity Law School and was admitted 
to the bar. He practiced law for 
a short time in New York and in 
1869 he moved to Mount Vernon, 
where he has since resided. He 
was twice President of the village 
of Mount Vernon, and when Mount 
Vernon became a city he became, 
by virtue of his oflBce, its first 
Mayor. For twelve consecutive 
years he served as School Commis- 
sioner of the First District of this 
county. In 1892 Mr. Sandford be- 
came Deputy Superintendent of 
Public Instruction of this State. He 
was elected a member of Assembly 
in 1897. He is a Democrat. 



WILLIAM J. GRANBY. 

William J. Graney, member of 
Assembly, representing the Second 
Assembly District, was born at 



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Dobbs Ferry, his present place of 
residence, on May 5, 1858, a son of 
Michael and Mary (Henehan) Gra- 
ney. He was educated in the pub- 
lic school of his native village, and 
on his graduation from the High 
School was forced, by the death of 
his father, to forfeit cherished am- 
bitions for a higher education, and 
seek employment as a means by 
which he might be able to support 
his widowed mother and sisters. It 
was not long, however, before he 
became bookkeeper for the prin- 
cipal merchant of his native vil- [ 
lage, in which position he remained 
for several years. His engaging 
manner and business-like methods 
attracted the attention of the late ' 
Warner D. Hatch, then president of j 
the Hatch Lithographing Com- 
pany, who offered Mr. Graney in- j 
ducements that led him to enter the i 
employment of that company, and 
he arose from a minor position to 
that of manager of the business. - 
He remained with this company \ 
until its dissolution. In politics ! 
Mr. Graney has always been a Dem- 1 
ocrat and no young man in West- j 
Chester County has performed j 
greater service for his party. For 
many years he has been the chair- 
man of the Town Committee of his 
town and a member of the County 
Committee, of which he was chair- 
man for two years, and was re- 
cently again elected to the position. 
He was first elected Clerk of the 
Village of Dobbs Ferry. In 1892 he 
was elected as the Democratic nom- 
inee for County Register by a large 
majority. As a candidate for re- \ 
election, in 1895, he was defeated, 
together with his associates on the 
Democratic ticket, though running I 
1.500 ahead of his ticket. He was 1 
elected to the Assembly as a Dem- '• 
ocrat by a majority of about 1,000 
in a district which the year pre- ] 
vious had given 2,500 majority to a 
Republican candidate. Mr. Graney 
enjoys the confidence and esteem 
of every one who knows him, and 
his word is as good as his bond, 



whether in business or politics. On 
October 5, 1898, he received the 
Democratic nomination for State 
Senator in the Westchester County 
District. Mr. Graney was married 
on June 29. 1893, to Miss Mary 
Louise Maher, daughter of Theo- 
dore Maher. His wife died on De- 
cember 22, 1897. 



JOHN GIBNEY. 

John Gibney, who represents the 
Third Assembly District, was born 
in 1842. When he was five years 
old his parents moved from Brook- 
lyn to Sing Sing, where he has ever 
since resided. He was educated at 
the public schools, and, owing to 
the necessities of his parents, he 
was compelled to earn his living 
from his thirteenth year. He was 
apprenticed to a filemaker and la- 
bored at that occupation until 1861, 
when, although only eighteen years 
old, he enlisted in the city of New 
York in Company F, First Battal- 
ion of the Twelfth Infantry, and 
took part in many of the prominent 
battles of the civil war. He was 
confined in Libby Prison and Belle 
Island for a considerable period. 
Mr. Gibney, on returning to Sing 
Sing, studied law in the office of ex- 
District Attorney Nelson H. Baker, 
in 1868, and subsequently in the 
office of Francis Larkin. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1872. He 
has since practiced in Sing Sing. 
He has held the office of Police 
Justice several terms, and for years 
has been counsel to the village of 
Sing Sing, under both Democratic 
and Republican administrations. 
He was elected a member of the 
Constitutional Convention of 1894. 
In 1897 he was chosen member of 
Assembly, as the Democratic nom- 
inee, notwithstanding that the dis- 
trict is considered to be rock-ribbed 
Republican. He declined a renom- 
ination in 1898. He is a member of 
Morell Post, G. A. R., of Sing Sing. 



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Members of the Board of Supervisors, 

1897-8. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



CHAUNCEY TOMPKINS SBCOR. 

Mr. Secor, chairman of the Coun- 
ty Board of Supervisors, is a Demo- 
crat, and represents the town of 
Scarsdale. He was born in the town 
of Rye, December 28, 1844. The 
home of his parents was in Scars- 
dale; it was while his mother was 
on a visit to her parents in Rye that 
he was born. He is a son and only 
child of Francis and Sarah A. 
(Lyon) Secor. He was educated at 
the Alexander Institute, in White 
Plains, after which he engaged ac- 
tively in farming. On December 2, 
1896, he was married to Miss Hen- 
rietta Fish, daughter of William H. 
and Catherine (Sutton) Fish, of 
Scarsdale. Mr. Secor manifests 
an interest in politics but does not 
profess to be a politician. He is a 
descendant of one of the most 
prominent families connected with 
the history of the county and State. 
On the paternal side he can claim 
relationship to a Governor (Tomp- 
kins) and to numerous Judges. Jon- 
athan G. Tompkins, his great grand- 
father, was a County Judge from 
1797 to 1802; Caleb Tompkins, an- 
other relative, was County Judge 
from 1807 to 1820. The office of 
Supervisor was held for many 
years by his relatives. Francis 
Secor, father of the subject of this 
sketch, was elected Supervisor of 
the town of Scarsdale, in 1849, and 
continued in that office twenty-six 
years. Mr. Secor, the present Su- 
pervisor, was first elected to the 
office in 1883 and has held it con- 



tinually ever since; previous to his 
election as Supervisor, he had held 
the office of Justice of the Peace for 
eleven years, from 1873. He has 
served several terms as Chairman 
of the Board of Supervisors. He 
resides at Scarsdale on the old Se- 
cor farm, which came in possession 
of the family in the year 1760, and 
which now belongs to him. 



CHARLES M. BAXTER. 

I Mr. Baxter, Supervisor, repre- 
j senting the town of Mamaroneck, is 
; a Democrat, and one of the most 
' active and useful members of the 
Board of Supervisors. He served 
I during recent sessions of the 
Board as chairman of the import- 
ant Committee on State Legislatiom, 
as second on the equally important 
j Committee on Equalization of As- 
sessments, and as a member of the 
I Committee on Register. He is one 
j of the most regular in attendance 
at meetings of the Board of Super- 
visors, taking good care that his 
town is represented at all sessions 
of that body, and is, through him, 
heard on all questions of interest to 
I taxpayers. That his townspeople 
1 appreciate his efforts in their be- 
I half is shown by the fact that he 
I has been repeatedly re-elected Su- 
pervisor without opposition. He 
was first chosen Supervisor in 1893, 
and re-elected up to 1899. Previous 
to being Supervisor he was elected 
Assessor, and served in that office 
from 1888 to 1893. Mr. Baxter is a 



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merchant in the village of Mamai-o- 
neck, and President of the local 
Board of Trade. He is a prominent 
member of the Masonic order, hav- 
ing served as Master of his lodge, 
and is also a member of numerous 
other societies. Mr. Baxter was 
born September 9, 1862, in New 
York city, and is a son of George 
L. and Mary L. (Hutcliiugs) Baxter. 
He received his education in the 
public schools of his native city. 
With his parents he removed to Ma- 
maroneck, in 1S76. where he has 
since resided. He was married ou 
October 9. 1884, to Miss Martha T. 
Oliver, daughter of William H. and 
Ellen Oliver, of New York city; 
they have a son Charles M. Baxter, 
Jr., and a daughter, Jean Baxter. 



EDGAR KETCHAM BROWN. 

Mr. Brown, Republican, who 
represents as Supervisor, the 
5th Ward of the city of Mount 
Vernon, was born in the city 
of New York, on September 8, 
1858. He is a son of Erastus Fitch 
and Caroline Piatt (Kenyon) Brown. 
His education was received at the 
public schools of his native city, and 
later at the College of the City of 
New York; on graduating from the 
Columbia College Liiw School, 
he was admitted to the practice of 
law and has been a most successful 
practitioner for many years in the 
city of New York. He served as 
a School Trustee and as a Village 
Trustee in the old village of Mount 
Vernon and was one of a commit- 
tee who drafted the Mount Vernon 
City charter; he was his party's un- 
successful candidate for City Judge 
at Mount Vernon's first city elec- 
tion; was elected to his present of- 
fice in 1S96 to serve until June 1, 
1898. During Mr. Brown's first 
year as Supervisor he served as 
chairman of the Judiciary Commit- 
tee of the Board of Supervisors. In 
the second year he was a member 
of the latter committee and chair- 
man of the Committee on Register; 
through his exertions an appropria- 



tion of $25,000 was secured for re- 
indexing the records of the Regis- 
ter's office upon modern and ap- 
proved methods. Mr. Brown was 
the nominee of his party for chair- 
man of the last Board of Supervi- 
sors. His defeat was not owing to 
a lack of popularity as a man, for 
no member was held in higher re- 
spect than was Mr. Brown by his 
colleagues, even his opponents were 
free to admit that his ability speci- 
ally fitted him to act as a presiding 
officer. Mr., Brown was married 
February 20," 1886, to Miss Emily 
White Cowperthwait. daughter of 
John H. and Mary Cowperthwait, of 
New York city He has resided in 
Mount Vernon twelve years. 



THOMAS A. BROWNE. 

Mr. Browne, Democrat, represents 
the Fourth Ward, the very lacality 
in which he was born on October 
28, 1865. He comes from good 
Irish-American stock, and his sterl- 
ing Democracy is honestly inherit- 
ed from his father, still living, a 
leading Democrat, and who was one 
of the first Excise Commissioners 
appointed in the city of Yonkers, 
immediately after the incorporaion, 
in 1872. Supervisor Browne was 
educated at St. Aloysius' Academy, 
and in the public schools of his na- 
tive city, after which he learned 
the trade of a mason, which he con- 
tinues to follow. He is popular in 
labor circles. While always deeply 
interested in the success of the 
Democratic party and the advance- 
ment of the interests of his politi- 
cal friends, he never consented to 
hold office befoi-e last year, when 
he was elected to his present posi- 
tion. Though one of the youngest 
of the Board of Supervisors, Mr. 
Browne is considered one of its 
best working members; regular in 
attendance and attentive to all de- 
tails, anxious to serve those he rep- 
resents. He was elected in 1897 to 
serve two years. Mr. Browne is a 
son of Patrick and Kathryn (Fal- 
vey) Browne. He is unmarried. 



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WALTER B. DIXON. 

Mr. Dixon, Republican, who rep- 
resents the Seventh Ward of Yon- 
kers, as Supervisor, was born in 
Guernsey, Channel Islands, Novem- 
ber 20, 1854. He received a liberal 
public school education. He came 
to New York in 1873, at the age of 
18 years; engaged in the grocery 
business in the lower part of that 
city, and later embarked in the 
same business up town, at Tremont. 
In 1892 he retired from the grocery 
business, and devoted himself ac- 
tively to transactions in real estate, 
at the same time becoming a resi- 
dent of Armour Villa Park, a 
charming suburb of Yonkers. Mr. 
Dixon's real estate office is at Mount 
Vernon. In politics he has always 
been a Republican, but has never 
been a politician in the strict sense 
of the term. His present office of 
Supervisor is his first introduction 
as an oflBice holder. His regular at- 
tendance, close attention to details 
and readiness to take part in the 
proceedings of the Board of Super- 
visors, make him a valuable mem- 
ber. He was married in 1881; is 
now a widower. Is a member of 
Guiding Star Lodge, No. 565, F. & 
A. M., and a member of the Metho- 
dist E. Church, at Tuckahoe. Mr. 
Dixon will also compose one of the 
Board of Supervisors for 1898-99. 



votes decided him worthy of an ad- 
ditional trust when they appointed 
him Superintendent of the Yonkers 
Armory. Mr. Earl is a member of 
the Order of the Red Men, of the 
Order of American Mechanics, of 
the Order of Patriotic Sons, and of 
the Royal Knights of the Ancient 
Essenic Order. He has one year 
more to serve as Supervisor. Mr. 
Earl was married on December 25, 
1867, to Miss Martha I. Lutes, 
daughter of the late Rev. William 
C. Lutes. The! Supervisor is a son 
of William and Mary (Browne) 
Earl 



EDWARD J. EARL. 

Mr. Earl, Republican, of the 
Eifth Ward, of Yonkers, was born 
in the city of New York, October 
6, 1847. He has lived in Yonkers 
over twenty-five years; his present 
residence being 41 Maple street, 
where he has resided fifteen years. 
He was graduated from Barton's 
Military Academy, Village Green, 
Delaware County, Penn. At pres- 
ent he is engaged in the real estate 
business, having charge of several 
large estates in his home city. This , 
is Mr. Earl's advent as an office hold- 
er; though a new and inexperienced 
member, his colleagues by their 



EDWARD A. FORSYTH. 

Mr Forsyth, Republican, repre- 
sening as Supervisor, the Third 
Ward of the city of Yonkers, was 
born in the ward which he now rep- 
resents, on November 16, 1867; his 
family is of Scotch extraction. His 
parents are John W. and Elizabetli 
(Tully) Forsyth. He was educated 
at the public schools of his city and 
after graduation prepared himself 
for the proffession of an Architect, 
and by close application to his vo- 
cation has succeeded in building up 
a highly lucrative business. He has 
acted as Architect and Superintend- 
ent of Construction in connection 
with several important buildings, 
among the most recent being the 
Municipal building of Yonkers, and 
a large apartment house in the 
western part of the State. Mr. For- 
syth is now holding his first politi- 
cal position, having been chosen 
Supervisor in 1895 and re-elected in 
1897 to serve until the fall of 1899; 
he is also a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Young Men's 
Republican Club, and a member of 
Rising Star Lodge, No. 450, F. & A. 
M., of Yonkers. Mr. Forsyth was 
married October 12, 1897, to Miss 
Ethel Boynton Sisson, daughter of 
Henry Sission, of Yonkers. Mr. 
and Mrs. Forsyth returning from 
their wedding trip, on October 24, 
met with a perilous accident; they 
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Railroad train that ran off the track 
and plunged into the Hudson River, 
just before daylight on the morn- 
ing of that day, at Garrisons. 
Though the sleeping coach, in 
which they were, was submerged, 
they succeeded in escaping by 
crawling out through a broken win- 
dow of the car. Many of the pas- 
sengers perished in watery graves. 



GEORGE T. GRAY. 

Mr. Gray, Democrat, who as Su- 
pervisor represents the town of 
Harrison, -was born in that town on 
January 21, 1844, and has since re- 
sided there; his occupation being 
that of a farmer. He is a son of 
Daniel W. and Sarah (Field) Gray. 
The father filled the office of Su- 
pervisor most acceptably for several 
terms. The son and present Su- 
pervisor served in the year 1896 and 
up to the present time. It is just 
and fair, even to his predecessors, 
to admit that the town never had a 
more painstaking and careful rep- 
resentative in the Board of Super- 
visors than the subject of this 
sketch. Mr. Gray has beien re- 
elected Supervisor, and will serve 
in the Board of 1898-99. Besides in 
the position of Supervisor, Mr. Gray 
has been of great service to his town 
in the offices of Assessor, Inspector 
of Election and as an Excise Com- 
missioner. During the last session 
of the Board of Supervisors, Mr. 
Gray served as chairman of the 
Committee on Constables, and also 
as a member of the Committee on 
Printing, performing his duties 
most thoroughly and satisfactorily. 

WILLIAM H. GREENHALGH. 

Mr. Greenhalgh, Democrat, who 
represents the First Ward of the 
city of Yonkers as Supervisor, was 
born in West Farms, Westchester 
County, on September 28, 1854, of 
English parentage. He is a son 
of William and Martha (Smith) 
Greenhalgh, He was educated in 
the West Farms public school. His 



present vocation is that of a mer- 
chant. He removed to the city of 
Yonkers in the year 1868. He was 
married on December 21, 1878, to 
Miss Julia B. Kilgore, daughter of 
William and Eliza Kilgore, of 
Newburgh, N. Y., Mr. Green- 
halgh is now holding his first 
political office, to which he was 
elected in 1897, to serve until the 
fall of 1899. At the last session of 
the Board of Supervisors he served 
on the Committees on Finance, 
County and Town Indebtedness, and 
on Miscellaneous Bills. He is quite 
prominent in the Masonic order, 
being a member of Rising Star 
Lodge, No. 450, F. & A. M., Nepper- 
han Chapter, No. 177, R. A. M., 
Yonkers Commandery, No. 47, K. T., 
and Mecca Mystic Shrine; also is, 
and has been for ten years, treas- 
urer of the Exempt Firemen's As- 
sociation of Yonkers. 



ISRAEL A. HAIGHT. 

Mr. Haight, Republican, repre- 
senting the town of New Castle, is a 
native of the town he represents; 
was born August 26, 1824, of Ameri- 
can parentage; a son of Aaron 
and Phebe (Anderson) Haight. 
He was educated in New Castle 
public schools. Was actively 
engaged in business, until he re- 
tired a few years since. He 
married on September 2, 1846, Miss 
Ellen Brouwer, daughter of Jacob 
and Hannah Brouwer, of New 
Castle. Mr. Haight was appointed 
an Assistant Assessor of Internal 
Revenue and served from 1866 to 
1872; was elected an Assessor and a 
Commissioner of Highways of his 
town; was Postmaster at Chappa- 
qua for three years during Presi- 
dent Harrison's administration, and 
in 1896 was appointed Supervisor 
to fill out the term of Francis M. 
Carpenter elected County Treasurer, 
and was re-elected in 1897. Mr. 
Haight was most regular in at- 
tendance at meetings of the Board 
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time in looking after the interests 
of his fellow taxpayers. The town 
can never have a more conscientious 
and faithful official than Mr. Haight 
has been. During the last session 
of the Board of Supervisors, he 
served as chairman of the Special 
Committee to audit Sheriff's bills 
for County Jail, and as a member of 
Committee on Commissioner of 
Jurors. 



ALBERT STOUGHTENBURGH 
JENKS. 

Mr. Jenks, Democrat, who repre 
sents as Supervisor, the Fourth 
Ward of the city of Mount Vernon, 
was born in the city of New York, 
on March 22, 1859, a son of Andrew 
M. and Sarah A. (Kellum) Jenks. 
When six years of age, his parents 
removed to Hyde Park, N. Y., where 
he resided until 1875, and where he 
was able to acquire a practical edu- 
cation in the public schoo'ls of that 
place. After a residence of five 
years in Poughkeepsie, he accom- 
panied his parents to Mount Vernon 
where he has continued to reside 
up to date. He was early appren- 
ticed to the carpentering trade, and 
soon became a skilled mechanic; to- 
day he is a member of the firm of 
Jenks & Plume, one of the leading 
firms of carpenters and builders in 
his home city. Mr. Jenks is bet- 
ter known as a business men than 
as an office holder. His standing 
as a man of business suggested his 
election as one of the first Aldermen 
of the City of Mount Vernon, in 
1892; he served two years. He 
was elected a Supervisor for a term 
of two years commencing 1897. Mr. 
Jenks was married December 18, 
1891, to Miss Margarette Cannon, 
daughter of Charles and Margaret 
Canlion, of Poughkeepsie, 



EDWARD B. KEAR. 

Mr. Kear, Republican, represent- 
ing the town of Yorktown, was 
born at Yorktown Heights, where 
he now resides, on March 24, 1866. 
Was educated at the Chappaqua In- 



stitute, Hackettstown Institute, and 
Eastman's Business College. Mr. 
Kear's first experience as an office 
holder was when elected Town 
Clerk, in 1889; his re-election fol- 
lowed the next year. In 1892 he was 
chosen a Justice of the Peace, and 
two years later he was elected a 
Justice of Sessions, holding the lat- 
ter office at the time it was abol- 
ished by the Constitutional amend- 
ment, and was one of the last Jus- 
tices of Sessions in the State. In 
the county convention of his party, 
in the fall of 1895, he received 58 
votes for nomination for County 
Clerk, and held the balance of pow- 
er, the two opposing candidates 
having received a tie vote; by being 
able to infiuence his friends, the 
votes cast for him were transferred 
on the next ballot to one of the op- 
posing candidates and he thus se- 
cured the nomination of his choice 
of the two. In 1896 he was elected 
to his present office, for two years, 
receiving 304 votes, to 260 votes 
cast for Ferdinand Horton, Demo- 
crat. He has for eight years been 
chairman of the Republican Town 
Committee, of his town, and a mem- 
ber of the Republican County Com- 
mittee for five years; has been a 
School Trustee and held other 
minor offices. Mr. Kear was mar- 
ried June 3, 1896, to Miss Josephine 
Reynolds, daughter of Lockwood 
Reynolds, of Croton Lake. He is a 
son of Henry C. and Catherine (Far- 
mer) Kear. 



CHARLES M. LANE. 

Mr. Lane, Republican, represent- 
ing the town of Mount Pleasant 
was born in the nearby town of 
New Castle, on December 1, 1857. 
In 1863 he removed, with his par- 
ents, to Pleasantville, where he has 
since resided. He was educated in 
the public schools of Pleasantville, 
and soon after embarked in busi- 
ness. Mr. Lane is at present one of 
the leading merchants of his home 
village. He has for years taken 
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anxious for the success of his party 
friends and the principles his party 
represents, but never held public 
office until he was appointed post- 
master at Pleasantville Station, 
which office he held during Presi- 
dent Harrison's administration. In 
1894 Mr. Lane was elected Super- 
visor, over David Silver, Democrat, 
and has been re-elected up to date. 
In the Board of Supervisors, Mr. 
Lane has ever been a prominent 
figure, taking a leading part in de- 
bates and serving upon the princi- 
pal committees, particularly that 
appointed to supervise and direct 
the construction of the new jail, now 
in course of erection. He has also 
served repeatedly upon the Legis- 
lation Committee, appointed to look 
after the county's interests in mat- 
ters of legislation at Albany. Mr. 
Lane is a son of Ephraim and Ma- 
hala (Reynolds) Lane. He was mar- 
ried in 1882, to Miss Ophelia Slagle, 
daughter of John H. Slagle, of 
Pleasantville. 



JAMES FAYETTE LAWRENCE. 
Mr. Lawrence, Republican, repre- 
senting the town of Lewisboro, was 
born at South Salem, in that town, 
on April 4, 1846. He comes from 
the best of American stock, his 
grandfather, Captain Samuel Law- 
rence, who fought and won fame in 
American Revolution, was commis- 
sioned by Gov. George Clinton, the 
first Governor of the State. Mr. 
Lawrence was educated in the pub- 
lic schools, and following in the 
footsteps of his father, became a 
good farmer, who has mastei-ed the 
art of getting the best service pos- 
sible out of his farm land. He is a 
son of Cyrus and Mary (Howe) Law- 
rence. The first and only political 
position held by him is that of Su- 
pervisor, which he has filled since 
the year 1893. His relatives in pre- 
ceding years had held the oflice for 
several terms, as the list published 
elsewhere will show. Supervisor 
Lawrence is recognized as one of 
the most genial and popular, as well 
as one of the most useful memberfc 



of the Board of Supervisors, and 
certainly no town's interests are 
better looked after than are Lewis- 
boro's. Mr. Lawrence was married 
January 6, 1876, to Miss Hannah 
Dickinson, daughter of Arnell F. 
Dickinson, of Bedford, who was a 
member of Assembly in 1857. 



HERBERT D. LEflMT. 

Mr. Lent^ De^miocrat, representing 
as Supervistor the town of East- 
ch ester, was born in New York city, 
on August 22, 1858, a son of Isaac 
B. and Hester (Burdfitt) Lent. With 
his parents he removed to Tuckahue 
in 1866, where he has since con- 
tinued to reside. He was educated 
in the local public schools, aftei 
which he studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar; he is known as a 
clever lawyer, careful in prepara- 
tion of oases, ready in argument, 
and guided by sound judgment. The 
first political position he held was 
that of Town Clerk of the old town 
of Eastchester, in 1886, and re- 
elected in 1887 by an unprecedent- 
ed majority of 700. He served sev- 
eral terms as a School Trustee, in 
School District No. 2, at Bronx- 
ville. Mr. Lent was first electea 
Supervisor in 1892, the year Mount 
\''ernon was taken from the town 
and made a city. In the last ses- 
sion of the Board of Supervisors he 
served as chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee and as a member of 
other important committees. To 
him is principally due the excellent 
macadamized roads recently con- 
structed and which tend to make 
attractive the town of Eastchestei. 
Mr. Lent was entrusted with the 
impiortant duty of acting on behalf 
of the county in settlement with 
the city of New York of m^atters 
growing out of the annexation of 
certain po-rtions of Westchester 
county to the city and county of 
New York, under act of 1895. Mr. 
Lent was married in June, 1889. to 
Miss Julia Merritt, daughter of 
Theron and Eliza Merritt, of Tticka- 
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DANIE'L, LEWIS. 

Dainded Lewis, Repubdioan, repre- 
s&nting as Supervisoir the Second 
Waird of the oity of Mount Vernon, 
was boirn on January 15, 1846, in 
E'astchesteT, th© sianue town of 
which Mount Vernon was formierly 
a part; a son of Andrew D. and 
Emily (Dev'oe) Lewis; a descendant 
of Revolu'idonary stock on both the 
maternal and paternal side. The 
only advantage of an education he 
had in early life was of the pri- 
mary nature, acquired in a disitrict 
sichoo'l in the to^wn of Yonkers. 
When only nine years of age he 
was thrown upon his own resources, 
since which time by hard study ana 
strict attention to his several duties, 
he has gradually worked his way 
up. Early in tbe year 1873 he be- 
came associated with the Mount 
Vernon Chronicle, of which news- 
paper he finally became editor and 
publisher. He is now engaged in 
the printing and stationery busi- 
ness in his home city. He was 
married in 1869 to Miss Mary Kate 
Brown, daughter of Joseph Brown, 
of Long Branch. His second mar- 
riage occurred in 1894, to Miss Hat- 
tie L. Craft, daughter of Charles 
Cfaft. of Eastchester. Mr. Lewis 
has for many yeairs taken an active 
interest in politics, but it was not 
until 1895 thiat he consienteid to ac- 
cept ofiioe; then he was appointed 
by Mayor Lewis as a Civil Service 
Commissioner; the same Mayor ap- 
pointed him in 1896 as a Supervisor 
for the Second Ward, and a few 
months later he was elected to fill 
the same position for twO' years 
ending .June 15, 1898. In the Board 
of Supervisors Mr. Lewis is a :>ronn- 
inent figure, paying close attention 
to 'his duties, and participating it, 
the discussion of matters of in tor 
est to taxpayers: as a commLtee 
worker he is a most industrious and 
effective. Mr. Lewis is also a mem- 
ber of Hiawatha Lodge, Mo. 434. 
F. and A. M., of Mount Vernon 
Chapter. No. 228, R. A. M., of Nep- 
perhan Council, No. 70, R. and S. M., 



and of Bethleihem Commandery, No. 
53, K. T. 



HENRY DELAFIELD PHELPS. 

Mr. Phelps, Republican, repre- 
senting as Supervisor the town of 
New Rochelle, was born in the city 
of New York, September 8, 1836, and 
has been a resident of New Rochelle 
for 35 years. Mr. Phelps is, as he 
himself declares it, a "Pure Ameri- 
can;" his parents were Henry and 
Catherine W. Phelps. He was grad- 
uated from Trinity College, Hart- 
ford, and is engaged at farming. He 
was married in 1857, to Miss Cath- 
erine Morris, daughter of Robert R. 
and Hannah Edgar Morris, of New 
York city. Mr. Phelps was first 
elected to the oflSce of Supervisor in 
1879 and continued in same position 
until 1883; was again elected in 1886; 
and is now serving by virtue of an 
appointment. Since the expiration 
of his term in 1886 he has been re- 
peatedly urged to consent to a re- 
election, as his popularity would in- 
sure, but on each occasion he de- 
clined, until the present year, when 
the sudden and uexpected death of 
Supervisor Gideon W. Davenport 
made it necessary that the town se- 
cure for the vacancy some person of 
special ability and experience. The 
New Rochelle Board of Town Offi- 
cers, by a unanimous vote, invited 
and urged Mr. Phelps to accept an 
appointment to the vacancy. In 
accepting the appointment, he did 
so conditionally, that he would not 
be urged to consent to an election 
to the office to succeed himself. 



ISAAC PURDY. 

Mr. Purdy, Democrat, represents 
the town of North Salem, as Super- 
visor, which is a particular dis- 
tinction owing to the fact that the 
town had previously been represent- 
ed in the county legislature by a 
long line of Republican Supervisors 
and was considered one of the most 
reliable Republican localities in the 
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with Republicans and Democrats i 
alike, is due his election. He was ' 
first chosen Supervisor in 1896 and ! 
re-elected on March 29, 1898; at the 1 
time of his being elected Supervisor [ 
in 1896, he was acting as a School 
Trustee. His being a School Trus- ; 
tee led to an attempt in the courts 
to oust him from the Supervisor- ! 
ship. He served during the 1896-7 
session of the Board of Supervisors, j 
but was debarred from acting at the 
opening of the session of the Board 
for 1897-8, by a decision of the 
courts, to the effect that holding the 
School Trusteeship made him in- j 
eligible for election as Supervisor. | 
The Board of Town Officers, com- | 
posed entirely of Republicans, ap- j 
pointed Mr. Purdy as Supervisor to 
fill the vacancy caused by this de- | 
cision of the courts. His re-election 
later approved this appointment. 
He received the largest majority 
ever given a Democrat in the town. 
Mr. Purdy was born on November 
3, 1853, at Purdy Station, a locality 
founded by his father, within the 
town he represents. He is a son of 
Isaac Hart Purdy and Mary Willis ^ 
(Lyon) Purdy. His father, who died ' 
in 1891, was Supervisor of the town ; 
from 1846 to 1850, and 1856-57. \ 
Isaac Purdy, his grandfather, filled 
the office of Supervisor of the town 
in 1823. 



HARRY JOHNSON ROBINSON. 

Mr. Robinson, Republican, who 
represents, as Supervisor, the First 
Ward of the city of Mount Vernon, 
was born in the city of New York, 
on April 11, 1856, a son of Thomas 
S. and Mary A. (Many) Robinson; 
and is on the maternal parent's side 
a direct descendant of the Hugue- 
nots. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of the city of Brooklyn, 
after which he learned the trade of 
a carpenter, and is now conducting 
a prosperous business as car- 
penter and builder in Mount 
Vernon, in which city he has re- 
sided twelve years. His first 
appearance as an office holder was 



when elected a Supervisor in 1896 
to serve until 1898. In the Board of 
Supervisors Mr. Robinson proved a 
very careful legislator, determined 
to know that he was right before 
going ahead, and his city was ma- 
terially benefited by his being in 
the Board and exerting an influence 
in the interest of taxpayers. He is 
also a trustee of the Building and 
Loan Association of Mount Vernon. 
Mr. Robinson was married Septem- 
ber 26, 1888 to Miss Caroline A. 
.Tones, daughter of James and Mar- 
ion Jones, of Brooklyn. 



GEORGE I. RUSCOE. 

Mr. Ruscoe, Republican, as Super- 
visor, represents one of the oldest 
towns in the county, Poundridge. 
He was born in the town of Lewis- 
boro, March 29, 1856; when about 
one year old his parents removed to 
North Wilton, Conn., where they re- 
sided until after the war, then in 
1865, removed to Poundridge, where 
Mr. Ruscoe has since resided. His 
parents were George R. and Hannah 
E. (Brown) Ruscoe. He was edu- 
cated at Bolton's Seminary at Lew- 
isboro. His father was a member of 
Company H, 17th Regiment, Con- 
necticut Volunteers, and served 
three years during the Rebellion, so 
also did nine of his uncles, six of 
whom stood six feet tall. Mr. Rus- 
coe has held the office of Justice of 
the Peace twenty-one years, and the 
ofiice of Supervisor for five years. 
In the Board of Supervisors Mr. 
Ruscoe is always on the alert, 
watchful for the interests of his 
town. He is well informed as to his 
duties, and is considered one of the 
most careful and conservative mem- 
bers of the Board. He is the tax- 
payers' friend and an enemy to all 
useless expenditures. Prior to his 
election as Supervisor, 1893, he was 
engaged as a public school teacher, 
acting in that capacity twelve years. 
He was married in 1889, to Miss 
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wife dying one year later. On Sep- 
tember 3, 1892, he was married to 
Miss Grace Adams, daughter of La- 
verda and Esther J. Adams, of 
Poundridge. 



PRANK G. SOHIRMEiR. 

Mr. Schirmer, Democrat, who rep- 
resents, as Supervisioir, the town of 
White Plains, was born in Germany, 
on October 18, 1848; a son of Joseph 
M. and Gertrude (Loremtz) Schirmei . 
When he was one year old his par- 
ents came to the United States and 
settled as residents of New York 
city; when he was twetive years ot 
age his parents remioved to White 
Plains, and in the latter place the 
subject of this sketch has resided 
ever since. He wias educated in 
the public schools of New York city 
and White Plains. Deaving Siohtool 
he served several years as clerk in 
the law offices of Lewis C. Piatt and 
of Hiram Paulding, but conoluded 
not to apply for admiission to the 
bar, preferring rather the pursuits 
of a merchant. He at an early age 
took an active interest in politics, 
uniting with the Demiocratic side. 
He exerted considerable influence in 
the interests of his party as a yonng 
man, and to-d'ay is acknawledged 
to be one of the leaders of that 
party in the county. For years he 
has been regular in attendance as 
a delegate at Democratic State Con 
ventions, and in county and minoi 
conventions his leaidership and ad- 
vice is greatly respected. The first 
puhlic position held by him, and 
the one of which he was doubtles& 
the miost proud, was that of Page 
to the Board of Siuipervisoris. to 
which position he was elected in 
1864, when sixteen years of age. He 
has served his town as Collector of 
Taxes for three years; was a Cor- 
oner of the county for six years, 
was Sheriff of the county, from 1889. 
for three years; to his present office 
of Supervisor he was first electeid 
six years ago. 



JOSEPH B. SEE. 

Mr. See, Republican, 's now serv- 
ing out his fitxeenth year as Super- 
visor of the town of North Castle. 
He was born in tiie town of Monnit 
Pleasant, not far distant from his 
present residence, on May 1, 1837, 
of American parenitage; a son ot 
Isaiah and Anna (Blanks) See. He 
was educated in the Bfuiblic««chools 
of his native town.. Twenty years 
ago he became a reisidenx of the 
town he now ably represents. He 
is a retired merchant, spending 
mbst of his time dn looking after 
the interests of his townspeople, 
who doubtlessly appreciate his en- 
deavors in their behalf, as proven 
by the frequency in wihich he is 
re-elected to the office by the unani- 
mous vote of the town. Ten years 
ago Mr. See was an extensive dealer 
in flour and grain in New York city, 
and has been a member of the New 
York Produce Eicohange for thirty- 
five years. He is at present presi- 
dent of the Wes'tchester Mining and 
Milling Company, at Breckenridge, 
Colorado. Mr. See held tlie post- 
mastership at Pleasantville from 
1865 to 1869, but was elected to no 
public office prior to his first elec- 
tion as Supervisor, and it is noiw 
the only public office he holds. When 
he was introduced to the Board of 
Supervisors as a "Cblt," he was, he 
says, as green as the. best North 
Castle grass; had never addressed 
an assembly or made a motion of 
any kind — n'ow how different. Mr. 
See is dionbtlessly the best informed 
man, on matters of routine with 
which the Supervisors have to deal, 
of any of the Supervisors; be is a 
fluent talker and as he is a man of 
ideas, he is a leader on w*hom much 
of the county's legiBlation depends. 
His genial disptosition and persis- 
tent nature recognizes no such word 
as failure when an end is to be 
accomplished; his aim is the coun- 
ty's good. During the ]i?st session 
he successfully championed the 
roads measure. He has for the 
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Westchester Ciounty Agricultural 
and Horticul'tural Sbciety. Mr. Set 
was married May 19, 1859, to MiSiS 
Margaret S. Reynolids, daughter ot 
Henry and Maria. Beymolds, ot 
North Castle. 



JAMES P. TEED. 



JOHN M. SHINN. 

Mr. Shinn, Republican, who rep- 
resents the town of Pelham in the 
Board of Supervisors, was born at 
Dubuque, Iowa, on October 25, 1849, 
of American parentage, his ances- 
tors coming to this country in 1648 
and settling in New Jersey. His 
parents are Asa and Azariah (Mor- 
gan) Shinn. He was educated at 
the Waterloo and Hannibal High 
School, in art at the Cooper Union 
Life Class, and Academy of Design, 
New York city, and in law at the 
New York Law School. He is by 
occupation an artist. He became a 
resident of the town of Pelham, in 
1874. He was married in 1876 to 
Miss Isabel King, daughter of Rob- 
ert and Susan (Hill) King, of New 
York city. Mr. Shinn was first elect- 
ed as Supervisor in 1895, and has 
been re-elected to serve until 1899. 
In the proceedings of the Board of 
Supervisors he has always taken a 
prominent part, serving on the most 
important committees and, being a 
man of ideas, is recognized as a 
leader, and has succeeded in accom- 
plishing much toward shaping legis- 
lation. He is ever zealous in behalf 
of what he considers the best inter- 
ests of his town and the general 
taxpayer. Previous to his election 
as Supervisor, he overcame a Demo- 
cratic majority, and was chosen 
Tax Collector for his town for two 
terms; has been a member of the 
Board of Education, Principal of 
the Pelham Manor School for about 
five years, and at Washington, D. C, 
was in charge of the collection and 
tabulation of statistics relating to 
Roman Catholic Churches, for cen- 
sus of 1890. 



Mr. Teed, Republican, represent- 
ing as Supervisor the town of So- 
mers, was born in that town on 
September 9, 1833, in the very house 
where he now resides, and where 
his father was born and lived up to 
date of his death. He is a son of 
Samuel and Mary (Horton) Teed. 
Was educated in the public schools 
and then became a farmer, follow- 
ing the profession of his father. 
He is unmarried. His present office 
of Supervisor is the only public po- 
sition he has ever held, an office in 
which his relatives had served in 
that town before him. He was first 
elected in the year 1880 and has 
been re-elected continuously up to 
date. He has the proud distinction 
of being the oldest member, as to 
time of service, of the Board of Su- 
pervisors. Mr. Teed has always ex- 
erted considerable influence among 
1 his colleagues, which he turned to 
j good advantage in assisting the tax- 
I payers not only of his town but of 
j the towns of the county generally. 
I He was for years a member of the 
I important Committee on Equaliza- 
I tion of Assessments, as well as the 
i Committee on Repairs and Supplies 
I of the Board of Supervisors. 



GILBERT M. TODD. 

Mr. Todd, Democrat, representing 
the town of Ossining, was born in 
Lewisboro, Westchester County, N. 
Y., November 7, 1833, of American 
parentage. He became a resident of 
Sing Sing, in the town of Ossining, 
wihere he now resides, in 1835. Was 
educated in Mount Pleasant Acad- 
emy and Peekskill Academy. He 
was first elected Supervisor in the 
year 1886, and has held the office 
continuously up to date, serving 
more years than any of his prede- 
cessors. Prior to holding his pres- 
ent office, he served as a Trustee of 
the Village of Sing Sing, from 1879 
to 1885; he is and has been for sev- 
eral years Vice-President of the 
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181 



Commissioner, Honorary Member of 
the Sing Sing Fire Department, 
which he joined in 1856; Rear Com- 
modore of the Sing Sing Yacht Club; 
a Trustee of the Mount Pleasant 
Academy; a Trustee of Dale Ceme- 
tery; a Vestryman of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church. Mr. Todd is par- 
ticularly attentive to his duties as 
Supervisor, and has never missed a 
meeting of the Board of Supervisors 
excepting when illness made it im- 
possible for him to attend. That 
his townspeople appreciate his de- 
votion to their interests is manifest- 
ed by the numerous times he has 
been unopposed at the polls when a 
candidate for re-election. Supervi- 
sor Todd is a son of Stephen and 
Eliza (Baker) Todd. He was mar- 
ried in January, 1856, to Miss 
Eleanor F. Hull, daughter of Wil- 
liam Hull. 



HALL BALDWIN WARING. 
Mr. Waring, Republican, who rep- 
resents as Supervisor, the Second 
Ward of the city of Yonkers, was 
born in Yonkers, on April 28, 1857. 
He is of American parentage, a des- 
cendant from one of the pioneer and 
most prominent families of his na- 
tive city; a son of Charles B. and 
Julia (Weed) Waring. He received 
a liberal education, taking the regu- 
lar course of study in the Peekskill 
Military Academy. Was married on 
June 8, 1893, to Miss Elizabeth A. 
Smith, daughter of Henry A. and 
Mary E. Smith, of Yonkers. Mr. 
Waring has for years been engaged 
as a real estate broker, devoting 
more of his time to business pur- 
suits than to the details of politics, 
though he always manifested inter- 
est in the success of his party. The 
first political position held by Mr. 
Waring was that of Police Commis- 
sion, in the years 1896-97, to which 



he was appointed by Mayor Peene. 
He was elected to his present office 
of Supervisor in the fall of 1897, to 
serve until the fall of 1899. In the 
Board of Supervisors, he is one of 
the most attentive, and always par- 
ticularly active when the interests 
of his city are at stake. He was 
chairman of the Committee on Com- 
missioner of Jurors, and a member 
of the Committee on Surrogate, in 
the last Board of Supervisors. 



PATRICK WHALEN. 

Mr. Whalen, Democrat, who, as 
Supervisor, represents the Sixth 
Ward of the city of Yonkers, 
also doubtlessly represents a 
more numerous Democratic con- 
stituency than any other man in the 
Board; in fact in the Sixth Ward, 
the stronghold of Democracy, no 
Republican dare contest an election 
with Mr. Whalen, and as frequently 
as the latter chooses he can be re- 
elected. Mr. Whalen entered the 
Board of Supervisors in 1896 and 
has been re-elected to serve until 
the fall of 1899. During the last ses- 
sion of the Board of Supervisors, he 
acted as chairman of the Printing 
Committee and as member of the 
New Jail and County Register Com- 
mittees. Mr. Whalen was born in 
Ireland, March 16, 1851, and came 
to this country with his parents and 
settled in Yonkers in the year 1853, 
and has resided in one locality, the 
one he now represents, 45 years. 
His parents are Michael and Mar- 
garet (Ormond) Whalen. He was 
educated in the Parochial and Pub- 
lic schools; is by occcupation a 
builder and real estate dealer. He 
was married August 26, 1871, to Miss 
Mary O'Keefe, daughter of James 
O'Keefe, of Yonkers. 



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iSuperinteiideiit of the Poor and Staff. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



HENRY ESSER. 

Henry Esser, County Superin- 
tendent of the Poor, was born in 
Germany, Province Rhine, on Aug- 
ust 31, 1844. He received his early 
education in the schools of his na- 
tive country, which was supple- 
mented by such instruction as he 
could secure in his adopted country. 
He came to the Unite'd States, and 
settleid in New York city, when 
quite young. Close application to 
business and honest dealing secured 
for him a just reward; several years 
ago he had accumulated enough of 
this world's goods to justify his re- 
tirement from business. He was 
married im 1867 'to Miss Augusta 
Hinkel, daughter of Henry and 
Christina Hinkel, of New York city. 
Mr. Esser and his family removed 
to Mount Vernon in 1884. His 
neighbors soon learned to r>fipreci- 
ate his worth as a citizen; he was 
chosen a Village Ttustee of the 
Village of Mount Vernon; in 1889 
he was first elected County Super- 
intendent of the Poor, as the Re- 
publican candidate; in 1894 he was i 
elected Treasurer of the City of 
Mount Vernon ; he was again elected 
County Superintendent of the Poor 
in 1895, his term expiring Decem- 
ber 31, 1898. His work as Superin- [ 
tendent is spoken of in another j 
part of this book, in an article en- I 
titled, "Care of Westchester Coun- j 
ty's Poor." 



WESLEY J. BOYCE. 

Wesley J. Boyce, keeper of the 
County Alms House, at East View, 
was born in Cortlandt, N. Y., on 



April 27, 1846, of American parent- 
age; a son of Matthew and Sarah 
(Wessels) Boyce. He was married 
on July 27, 1867 to Miss Rachel Cy- 
pher, of Yorktown. In politics Mr. 
Boyce is a Republican, a loyal 
member of his party organization, 
and ever active in its service. His 
present position is the only political 
office he has ever held. He has 
made a most capable officer, accep- 
table in all respects; he appears to 
be particularly adapted to fill the 
position of keeper, 'to cootro'l with 
firmness and to administer with 
kindness suggested by wisdom. 

FREDERICK CRISFIELD. 

Pi-ederick Crisfleid, clerk of the 
County Alms House, at Eastview, 
was born in Yonkers, September 28, 
1868, of American parentage; he is 
a son of George H. and Susanah 
(Van Tassell) Crisfield. He received 
his education in the public schools 
of his native city. Was married 
December 19, 1891, to Miss Caroline 
A. Brown, daughter of William A. 
and Caroline A. Brown, of East 
View. Mr. Crisfield takes an ac- 
tive interest in politics, and is close- 
ly identified with the younger ele- 
ment of the Republican party which 
is quite sucessfully demanding re- 
cognition. He has served in his 
present office nearHy ^ix years, and 
is a methodical and painstaking 
clerk. Previous to his present ap- 
pointment, he was a recording clerk 
in the County Register's office. He 
is a resident of the town of Green- 
burgh, where he has resided nine 
years. 





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NICHOLAS H. FREELAND, M. D. 

Nicholas H. Fr&elaind, M. D., ot 
Tarrytown, visiting physician at 
the County Alms House, at East 
View, was boTn in New York city, 
on March 28, 1845, a son of Henry 
C. and Elizabeth Louisa (Hildredth) 
Freeland. Was educated in Locli- 
wood's Institute at Cannon Station, 
Conn.,R)owe & Davis' Institute, Tar 
rytown, at the New York City Col- 
lege, and at the Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, New York city. 
Dr. Freeland has resided in Tarry- 
town about thirty years. He was 
married on May 4, 1869, to Miss 
Eleanor Reeves, daughter of Jere- 
miaih and Oassandira (Noirris) 
Reeves, of the State of Alabama. 
He has occupied his present office 
three years; has held the position 
of Health Officer of the town ot 
Greenburgh and of Health Officer 
of the Village of Tarrytown; has 



also served as Surgeon of the 16th 
Battallion of the N. Y. S. N. G. 



WILLIAM W. MILLS, M. D. 

Dr. Mills, house pihysioian ajt the 
Oounty Alms House, East View, 
was born in the town of Wallkill, 
N. Y.. on August 26, 1870. He is a 
son of Albert and Louisa (Linder- 
man) Mills. He received his early 
education in the schools of Wall- 
kill and Middletown, N. Y., and is 
a graduate of Bellevue Medical Col- 
lege, New York city. He was ap- 
pointed to his present position in 
April, 1897. Though in politics a 
Republican, Dr. Mills devotes his 
time more to the practice of his 
profession, than to the solution of 
mysterious political problems. The 
doctor is greatly respected by his 
poor patients whom he faithfully 
and ably serves at all hours of the 
day and night. 



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Table of Tax Collections under the Liquor Tax Law, 



Persons desiring to engage in the sale of intoxicating liquors, 
wine and beer, are required by law to first secure from the County 
Treasurer a license to sell. The County Treasurer, on being made 
satisfied that the applicant for such license has secured the consent 
of the required number of property owners, has complied fully with 
the law and is entitled to receive said license, may, on receiving the 
fee specified by the Liquor Tax Law, grant to said applicant a cer- 
tificate which provides the license petitioned for. The license year 
commences May 1. Following are the fees charged for certificaievS, 
graded according to population of localities: 

Hotels and Saloons. Storekeepers. 

In cities of 1,500,000 or more $800 $500 

In cities less than 1,500,000, but 

more than 500,000 650 400 

In cities less than 500,000, but 

more than 50,000 500 300 

In cities or villages less than 50,- 

000, but more than 10,000 ... 350 200 

In cities or villages less than 10,- 

000, but more than 5,000 300 100 

In villages less than 5,000, but 

more than 1,200 200 75 

In any other place 100 50 

Druggists' certificates are granted at the uniform rate of five 
dollars per year, in all places. 

The tax required to be paid in the several citieB and villages 
of Westchester County is as follows: 

Hotel and Saloon. Storekeeper. 

Yonkers, city $350 $200 

Mcunt Vernon, city 350 200 

New Eochelle, village 300 100 

Peekskill, village 300 100 

Sing Sing, village 300 100 

Port Chester, village 300 100 

Dobbs Ferry, village 200 75 

Tarrytown, village 200 75 

Irvington, village 200 75 

Hastings, village 200 75 



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North Tarrytown, village 200 75 

Croton, village 200 75 

White Plains, village 200 75 

Bronxville, village 200 75 

Tuckahoe 200 75 

Mamaroneck, village 200 75 

Eye 200 75 

Eye Beach 200 75 

Polham, village 100 50 

Pelham Manor, village 100 50 

Xorth Pelham, village 100 50 

Larchmont, \illage 100 50 

Mount Kisco, village 100 50 

PI asantville, village 100 50 

All outside of incorporated villages . 100 50 



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Eailroads tliat Traverse the County. 



The New York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroad runs along 
the eastern bank of the Hudson River through the whole length of 
the county, from Spu^len Duyvil Creek to the borders of Putnam 
County. Trains start from and enter the Grand Central Station, at 
Forty-SLCond t>treet, Xew York city. The several stations on tliis 
road are: Ludlow, Yonkers, Glenwood, Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, 
Ardsley, Irvington, Tarrytown, Scarborough, Sing Sing, Croton 
Landing, Oscawana, Crugers, Montrose and Peekskill. 

The Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad 
extends through the central portion of the county, and the stations 
are: Mount Vernon, Bronxville, Tuckahoe, Yonkers Park, Scars- 
dale, Hartsdale, White Plains, Kensico, Kensico Cemetery, Union- 
ville, Sherman Park, Pleasantville, Chappaqua, Mount Kisco, Bed- 
ford, Katonah, Goldens Bridge, Somers Centre, Purdys and Croton 
Falls. 

The New York and Putnam Division of the New York Central 
Railroad, which connects with the Sixth Avenue and Ninth Avenue 
Flevated Railways at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street, New 
York city, has stations in this county at the following places: Lin- 
coln, Dunwoodie, Bryn Mawr Park, Nepperhan, St. Andrews, Nep- 
pera Park, Mount Hope, Chauncey, Ardsley, Woodlands, Worthing- 
ton, Flmsford, East View, Tarrytown Heights, Tower Hill, Pocan- 
tico Hills, Briarcliff Manor, Hammonds, Millwood, Kitchawan, Cro- 
ton Lake, Yorktown, Amawalk, West Somers and Baldwin Place. 
Stations on the Yonkers branch of this railroad are as follows: 
Yonkers, Park Hill, Lowerre, Caryl, Mosholu, Van Cortlandt, 
Kingsbridge, Fordham Heights. 

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad provides 
traveling accommodation for residents in the eastern section of the 
county, running as it does through the towns, cities and villages 
bordering on Long Island Sound. It traverses the whole country, 
to the Connecticut State line. The stations on this road within the 
county are: Mount Vernon, Pel ham. New Rochelle, Larchmont, 
Mamaroneck, Harrison, Rye and Port Chester. The New York City 
terminus of the road is the Grand Central Station, on Forty-second 
Street. The Harlem River Branch, of this railroad, has stations 
located at New Rochelle, Woodside, Pelham Manor, Bartow, Bay- 
chester, Westchester, Van Nest, West Farms, Hunt's Point, Casa- 
nova, Port Morris, Harlem River and 129th Street, New York city. 



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TOWNS OF THE COUNTY 



Until tlie pasBage of an act in 1849, Cliapter 194, towns owed 
their creation to the will of the Legislature. The act mentioned 
gave power to the several Boards of Supervisors (except in New York 
County), by a two-thirds vote of the members elected, to divide or 
alter the bounds of any town or erect new ones, when such division 
does not place parts of the same town in more than one Assembly 
district. Apphcation for such division or change must hrst be made 
by at least twelve freeholders of each town affected by the division, 
and a notice of intended application posted in at least hve public 
places and published in all the county newspapers. A survey and 
map of the town or towns thus affected must also be filed in the 
State Secretary's office, together with a certified copy of the act of 
the board. The latter is published in the appendix to the lawB of 
the following session. The Legislature still retains power to create 
towns by a special act. 

By an act of the Board of Supervisors, passed in January of 
this year, the last Tuesday in the month of March was designated 
as the day on which shall be held town meetings and elections in 
this county. At these elections there shall be chosen, in years fixed 
by a statute, by ballot, for each town, a Supervisor, Town Clerk, 
one or more Justices of the Peace, one or more Assessors, a Col- 
lector of Taxes, one or three Commissioners of Highways, at least 
one Overseer of the Poor, three Trustees of Public Property, not 
exceeding five Constables, a necessary number of Inspectors of Elec- 
tion, a Game Constable and a Sealer of Weights and Measures. 
Three Town Auditors are provided for each town under an act of 
the Legislature passed June 5, 1886. This act authorizes the 
electors of a town, at any town meeting thereafter held, to determine 
by ballot whether such towns shall elect at the next succeeding 
town meeting, held in that town, a Board of Town Auditors, who 
shall exercise all the powers conferred by law upon such boards; all 
bills and claims against the town must be presented to such Auditors 
on the first day of their session. Freeholders only, of the town, are 
eligible to the office. 

A Town Health Board is composed of the Supervisor, four 
Justices of the Peace, the Town Clerk, and a citizen member selected 



188 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

by the last-named town officers. This Town Health Board on its 
organization elects a physician of the town as the Town Health 
Officer. 

Prior to 18-i6, town officers were elected at town meetings (as is 
still the custom in most towns), excepting Justices of the Peace, who 
were appointed at a joint session of the County Board of Supervisors 
and the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. 

An act authorizing the election of Town Auditors in the sev- 
eral towns of Westchester County was passed by the Legislature 
jjarch 17, 1874. 

Under an act passed by the Legislature of 1898, the Board of 
Supervisors is authorized to change the time for holding town meet- 
iLgs from the spring to the days of the general election in the fall. 

Towns are prohibited, by an amendment to the State Constitu- 
tion, adopted IBS-i, from giving or loaning their property or credit 
except for town purposes. 

The elections held in the several towns of this county on March 
29 last were conducted in accordance with the new laws of 189 7. 
Under these laws town elections will be held only once in two years 
commencing with the election in the spring of 1899. To make the 
new law effective the Supervisors and other officers (who were pre- 
viously elected for terms of two years or more) were at the last 
election chosen for a term of one year, so as to have their terms of 
office expire in 1899. Next year the term of such officers will be for 
two years, as heretofore. The law reads as follows: 

Sec. 12. Election of Officers. — "There shall be elected at the 
biennial town meeting in each town, by ballot, one Supervisor, one 
Town Clerk, two Jiistices of the Peace, three Assessors, one Col- 
lector, one or two Overseers of the Poor (except in the counties of 
Eichmond and Kings), one, two or three Commissioners of High- 
ways, not more than five Constables, and two Inspectors of Election 
for each election district in the town. If there shall be any vacancies 
in the office of Justice of the Peace in any town, at the time of 
holding its biennial town meeting, persons shall then also be chosen 
to fill such vacancies, who shall hold their offices for the residue of 
the unexpired term for which they are respectively elected." 

Sec. 13 of the new law defines the term of office of the Super- 
visor, Town Clerk, Assessors, Commissioners of Highways, Collec- 
tors, Overseers of the Poor, Inspectors of Election and Constables. 
to be for two years, when elected under the new law, beginning in 
the spring of 1899. 

Justices of the Peace, under the new law, will be divided into. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 189 

two classes, two of whom shall he elected biennially. They are to 
continue holding office for four years, beginning on January 1 after 
their election. 

To'WTis may decide by ballot as to whether they will have one, 
two or three Highway Commissioners, also whether they will have 
one or two Overseers of the poor, who shall be elected biennially for 
a term of two years. Or the electors may vote at a town meeting, on 
application of twenty-five resident taxpayers, to have one Overseer, 
and have him appointed by the Town Board. 

Publif-hed elsewhere in this volume are the names of Supervisors 
who have served the several towns in former years. 



TOWN OF BEDFORD. 



Tins town was organized under act of March 7, 1788, though it 
had previously existed under patent in the colonial period. It de- 
rives its name from the town of similar title in Bedfordshire, Eng- 
land. The land was purchased from the Indians in 1655, and was 
at the time of such purchase known as '"Catonah's land,'"' in honor 
of the Indian Sachem Catonah, the undisputed owner. In his honor 
one of ihe sections of the town is now named. This town in the 
early period belonged to the Province of Connecticut; residents 
made a strong contest and succeeded, in 1700, in having the town 
made a part of the Province of New York. 

Mount Kisco, Bedford, Katonah and Bedford Station, lying 
within the town limits, are situated on the Harlem Railroad. 

Bedford shared with \\hite Plains, up to the year 1868, the 
honor of being a half shire town. A Court House was erected in 
Bedford in 1787 and besides the holding of courts in the Court 
House, meetings of the Board of Supervisors were held there fre- 
quently during the end of the last century. Previous to the erec- 
tion of this Court House, courts had been held in the Bedford 
Presbyterian Church. The village of Bedford was burned July 2, 
1779, during the Revolution, by British troops under Gen. Tarleton. 
The old Court House was recently converted into a ToAvn Hall. 
The general surface of Bedford is described as "elevated, though 
broken by small hills and valleys: has very little of waste ground. 
The arable, pasture and meadow lands are in very just proportion 
for a good farming countrj^and the whole is well watered by springs, 
brooks and rivulets, the latter of good size for mills; the summits 
of the hills afford many extensive and interesting prospects; the 



190 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

land yields good crops of grain, grass and fruii."' A fair average 
estimate value of land is $75 per acre. A large section of the town 
has been condemned and the land taken for purposes of the New 
York city watershed; particularly the locality known as Katonah, 
which has already been almost deserted, "before the flood," and 
its former inhabitants have, in many instances, not only taken up 
their beds and walked, but have taken up their houses as well, and 
earned the same into the locality known as "New Katonah," a few 
milee distant. 

The population of the town, according to the several census 
enumerations, was, in 1830, 2,750; in 1835, 2,735; in 1840. 3,822; 
in 1845, 2,725; in 1850, 3,207; in 1855, 3,464; in 1860, 3,639; in 
1865, 3,465; in 1870, 3,697; in 1875, 3,744; in 1880, 3,731; in 
1890, 3,291. 

The assessed valuation in the town this year is: Eeal, $1,500,- 
000; personal, $150,000. Tax rate for 1898 is $7.46 per $1,000, ou1> 
side incorporated limits; $4.58 inside village of Mount Elisco per 
$1,000. The rate last year was $10.46 per $1,000. The town has 
no indebtedness. Back taxes are payable to the Supervisor. Prop- 
erty sold for non-payment of taxes is usually bought in by in- 
dividuals. 

Following are names and addresses of the town officers: Su- 
pervisor. Isaac W. Turner, Katonah; Town Clerk, William B. 
Adams. Bedford Station; Justices of the Peace, Eobert K. Clark, 
Bedford; J. H. Crane, Mount Kisco; John Knox, Mount Kisco; A. 
F. Avery, Katonah; Collector of Taxes, E. A. Arnold, Katonah; 
Assessors, Wm. H. Bates, Daniel J. Smith, Joseph W. Halstead. 



TOWN OF CORTLANDT. 



This town's organization dates from March 7, 1788. As does 
the towns of Yorktown, North Salem, Lewisboro and Somers, it 
was formerly a part of the Manor of Cortlandt, which manor, ac- 
cording to actual survey, contained eighty-three thousand acres. 
The town, as was the manor, was named in honor of the influential 
family of the Van Cortlandts, the first grantees from the Indians. 
The name is said to be properly Corte-landt; the first syllabic, Corte, 
or Korte, meaning in the Dutch language, short; the second, landt 
(land), literally the short land, a term expressing the peculiar form 
of the ancient Duchy of Courland in Russia; the Dukes Courland 
were on particularly friendly terms with the Dutch. The Van 



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Cortlandts descended from one of the most noble families in Hol- 
land. 

The town of Cortlandt lies most beautifully upon the easterly 
bank of the Hudson Eiver. Within its limits are the villages of 
Peekskill and Croton, and the localities known as Verplanck, ]\lont- 
rose, Annsville, Crugers., Oscawana, Cortlandtville, Buchanan, Con- 
tinental ville, Pleasantside, Centreville and Groveville. 

The State Camp of Instruction is located on the "MeCo} 
Farm," about one mile northwest of the village of Peekskill. The 
ground for the camp was selected by the State authorities on March 
31, 1882, and leased for a term of three years; on April 30, 1885, 
the State purchased the property, consisting of one hundred acres, 
paying for same $30,000. 

Peekskill Creek, which runs through the town, empties in the 
Hudson River, near Peekskill; Furnace Brook, in this town, is also 
a tributary of the Hudson. 

The population of the town at different periods, as shown by 
census enumerations, was as follows: 3,840 in 1830, 3,994 in 1835; 
5,592 in 1840; 6,738 in 1845; 7,758 in 1850; 8,146 in 1855; 10,074 
in 1860; 9,393 in 1865; 11,694 in 1870; 11,908 in 1875; 12,664 in 
1880, 15,139 in 1890. 

The surface of the town is hilly and on the northwest moun- 
tainous. The soil is fairly good for farming purposes, but more 
valuable as sites for villas and country residences. A fair average 
value of land per acre is $500. 

This years assessed valuation of the town is $8,829,327, of 
wliich amount $6,698,283 is of real estate, and $2,131,044 is of per- 
sonal property. The tax rate for this year, outside the villages, is 
$3.97 per $1,000. Last year's rate was $8.20 per $1,000. 

The first recorded election for town officers is that of April 1, 
1788, when Philip Van Cortlandt was chosen Supervisor, together 
with other officers. 

The present town officers are: James H. Haight, Supervisor; 
S. Allen Mead, Tom'u Clerk; Frank Wessels, Receiver of Taxes; John 
Halstead, Lewis Bleakly, James F. Lynch and William H. Baker, 
Justices of the Peace. Post office addresses of officials, Peekskill. 
N. Y. 

The village of Peekskill was incorporated by act of the Legis- 
lature passed April 9, 1827, but the village was not organized until 
1839. It is located on the east bank of the Hudson River, and on 
the line of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. 
lorty-two miles from New York City. The population of the village 



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was 6,5G0 in 18 VU, 6,bi»3 in 188U, and D,t>T(> m 18t)U. The .special 
census taken in January, 1898, gives the population as 9,490. 

Tlie lirst president of the village was Capt. W. Eequa, in 1839; 
he was chosen by the Board of Village Trustees, couiposed of Morris 
Depew, Frost Horton, Capt. ¥. W. liequa, Ttaniel D. Smicn and 
James Taylor. 

The name Peeks Kill is derived from the fact that one Jans 
i'eek, a Dutch navigator, undertook to sail up the Hudson on an 
independent voyage of discovery. He lost his bearings and car- 
ried Lis vessel into the creek (or kill), where he soon ran aground. 
Tins accident caused hin^. to land about vv-here the present village 
now stands. He gave the kill, which he discovered, his own name, 
and the village adopted the name given the creek or kill. 

The village fire department was organized in 18'3G, prior to 
incorporation of the village. The department consisted of one 
engine company, under command of Nathaniel Bedell, its first fore- 
man. 

The public streets were first lighted with gas in December, 
1856. 

The works from which the village derives its water supply were 
completed in 1875, under act passed in 1872. The local public and 
private schools equal any in the State. The town is noted for its 
large manufacturing concerns, which give employment to many 
thousand persons. 

Peekskill has an interesting history associated with the Ameri- 
can Revolution, having been the scene of many stirring events, and 
was made to suffer much from the enemy's incursions. 

Tlie Westchester Bank, the town's principal financial institu- 
tion, was established March 31, 1833. 

The Peekskill Savings Bank was incorporated April 18, 185"9, 
v.'ith George F. Hussey, William Nelson, James Brown, George 
Dayton, Thomas Southard, Edward Wells, Truman Miner, Cyrus 
Townsend, Joseph B. Brown, I. L. Varian, Nehemiah S. Jacobs, 
Uriah Hill, Jr., Chauncey M. Depew, B. H. Field, G. B. Hart, W. R. 
Nelson, Calvin Frost, D. J. Haight, Edwin Briggs, R. A. Depew, 
Orrin Frost, John Henry, Edward Underbill and Saxton Smith as 
Trustees. 

The Field Library was incorporated April 11, 1887. 

Residents of Peeksldll engaged in whaling had an act passed 
by the State Legislature on April 5, 1834, incorporating the West- 
chester Whaling Company; William Nelson, St. John Constant, ■ 
John Hunter, Henry White. Niles Frost, Tyler Fountain. Solomon 



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Bundle, Jonathan Ferris, Philip Clapp, Wm. Watts and Gerard 
Crane were named as directors. 

Samuel W. Bard was given a franchise for a ferry between 
Peekskill and Haverstraw, by an act of the Legislature passed May 
4, 1835; a like francliise was given to Ward Hunter on same date. 

Peekskill is connected with New York city by railroad and 
steamboats. 

Its sewer system is one of the best. Its streets are creditable 
to so thriving a village. 

Peekskill is certainly a manufacturing center, giving employ- 
ment to thousands of persons. Stoves and ranges are produced 
here in great numbers, and probably in a much larger quantity than 
in any other place of its size in the country. Factories for the man- 
ufacturing of hats and other wearing material are numerous; other 
manufactories also thrive here; in fact, the local residents offer 
special inducements to firms desiring to locate in a town possessing 
many special advantages, particularly excellent transportation facil- 
ities by rail or boat to and from New York city. 

The present officers of the village of Peekskill are: George W. 
Eobertson, President; George V. B. Frost, Joseph M. Fox, Warren 
Jordan, John S. Boyd, Gilbert L, Tompkins and David G. Montross, 
Trustees; John S, Boyd, President pro tem.; Charles E. Swain, 
Clerk; E. C. Wilson, Treasurer; Frank Wessels, Keceiver of Taxes. 

The village of Croton, situated in the southern portion of the 
town, was incorporated Feb. 12, 1898; in voting on the question of 
incorporation the electors of that locality, at a special election held 
for the purpose on the date stated, cast seventy-four (74) votes in 
favor of the proposition and twenty-one (21) votes against. The 
population at the time of incorporation was 1,244. The village 
is on the fine of the New York Central and Hudson Eiver Eail- 
road, the station being Croton Landing, thirty-five miles from 
New York city. It derives its name from the river which flows 
along its southern boundary. The village is attractive as a resi- 
dence locality and its citizens are progressive. The manufactories 
established here give employment to many persons. Large quan- 
tities of brick are annually made in the vicinity. The present 
village officers are as follows: Charles E. Gratten, President; Frank 
Decker and John Sharf, Trustees; Eobert B. Wright, Clerk; Andrew 
Decker, Collector of Taxes; Charles Henry, Treasurer. Post office 
address, Croton-on-the-Hudson. 



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TOWN OF EASTCHESTEE. 



Tliis town received its present name in the year 1666. It was 
first known by the name of Hutchinsons, and later as "The Ten 
Farms/' the latter name being derived from its ancient division 
among ten owners. The lands were included in the Indian grant of 
1640, given to the Dutch settlers. Thomas Pell, in 1654, secured 
a second grant from the Indians, which also included land upon 
which the town was founded. Further grants were secured from 
the Indians, it being found necessary to do so to confirm the settlers 
in their possessions and protect them from land grabbers. The 
town's northern boundary line lies next to the town of Scarsdale, 
on the east it joins Pelham and New Eochelle, on the south West- 
chester, and on the West Yonkers. The Bronx (Aguehung) River 
runs along the western boundary line, and on the east is the Hutch- 
inson (Agueanounck) River, or Eastchester Creek, which flows into 
a large bay of similar name, in the southeast. 

In early days the Courts of Sessions for the county held terms 
in this town. The first election in the town of which there is record 
wa£ the one at which Samuel Drake was chosen Constable, held on 
Feb. 3, 1672; in 1686 John Pinkney was elected Supervisor, to- 
gether with other necessary town officers. The first independent 
election for town officers, held under act of the Legislature, passed 
Oct. 23, 1779, took place Dec. 22, 1783, when Ebenezer Burling waa 
elected Supervisor. 

The population of the town has been, according to census 
enumerations of the several years, as follows: In 1830, 1,030; in 
1835, 1,168; in 1840, 1,502; in 1845, 1,369; in 1850, 1,679; in 1855, 
4,715; in 1860, 5,582; in 1865, 5,615; in 1870, 7,491; in 1875, 8,294; 
in 1880, 8,737; in 1890, 15,442. 

By an act of the Legislature, passed March 12, 1892, that part 
of the town lying within the incorporated limits of the village of 
Mount Vernon was granted a city charter, and made a separate 
town. In 1895 an act of the State Legislature annexed portions of 
the town, lying east and south, and known as the villages of East- 
chester and Wakefield, to the city and County of New York, 

At Tuckahoe, on the Harlem Railroad, is established the town 
"seat of government," the town offices being located here. The 
name Tuckahoe, in the Algonquin, means "The Bread;" Tuckah 
(bread), the o, oe, or eng, being merely an adjective sign relating to 
the plant itself. 

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Lent, Supervisor; William J. Fisher, Town Clerk; Nicholas Reid, 
P. J. White, Benjamin B. Riley and Dennis O'Neill, Justices of the 
Peace; Joseph Silk, Receiver of Taxes. Post office address, Tuck- 
ahoe, N. Y. 

The assessed value of real estate in the town was, last year, 
$3,618,169; personal property, $157,495. The tax rate this year is 
5.89 on $1,000. Water and light, district No. 1, $7.35 on $1,000. 
Water and light, district No. 2, $6.82 on $1,000. 

Bronxville, situated on the Harlem Railroad, is the only incor- 
porated village in the town, its incorporation having been effected 
May 9, 1898. Electors of Bronxville held a special election on April 
19, 1898, to decide the question of incorporation. At this election 
25 votes were cast in favor of incorporation and 8 votes were cast 
against the same. A census taken showed the population of the 
new village to be 391. The village officers are: Francis Bacon, 
President; W. F. Kraft and W. W. Kent, Trustees; David E. Smith, 
M. D., Clerk; Charles E. Booth, Tax Collector; Alfred E. Smith, 
Village Attorney. 



TOWN OF GREENBURGH. 



This town was formerly a portion of Philipsburgh Manor, the 
land having been purchased from the Indians by Frederick Philipse 
at different times, commencing in 1681. Prior to the Dutch dis- 
covery the site of the town formed part of the Indian territory of 
Wikagyl. The name of the town is credited to Dutch origin; ac- 
cording to the Dutch language Grein (Grain) burgh (borough or 
town) was intended to be known as the Grain town. We are told 
that in 1692 the town labored under the title of Weekersqueeke. In 
early deeds it is referred to as "Lawrence's Plantation." The lands 
remained in the Philipse family until the attainder of Col. Frederick 
Philipse, in 1779, when they became vested by forfeiture in the 
people of the State. The titles of land soon passed into the pos- 
session of many persons, the purchase price being but a trifle in each 
instance. 

The first independent election for town officers, according to 
the records, was held on April 7, 1778, when Joseph Paulding was 
chosen Supervisor. The names of the successors of Mr. Paulding, 
in the office of Supervisor, will be found published on another page. 

The town contains the incorporated villages of Tarrytown, Irv- 
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The population of the town since 1830, as given by the several 
census enumerations, has been as follows: In 1830, 2,195; in 1835, 
2,606; in 1840, 3,361; in 18-15, 3,205; in 1850, -1,291; in 1855, 6,435; 
in 1860, 8,929; in 1865, 8,463; in 1870, 10,?90; in 1875, 10,943; in 
1880, 9,861; in 1890, 11,613. The population of villages, according 
to census taken in January, 1898, will be found on another page. 

The assessed valuation of the town for 1897 was: Eeal estate, 
$23,098,850; personal, $6,212,554. The tax rate tliis year is 3.726 
per $1,000 of assessed valuation inside of incorporated villages, and 
$5,865 per $1,000 of assessed valuation outside of villages. Back 
taxes are received by the Supervisor. The present town ofl&cers are: 
Supervisor, Alexander McClelland, Dobbs Ferry; Town Clerk, K. H. 
Purdy, Tarrytown; Justices of the Peace, K. B. Farrington, Has- 
tings, John Lang, Dobbs Ferry, Adam Buseh, Irvington, Charles 
McCutchen, Tarrytown; Keceiver of Taxes, Augustus Travis, 
Ardsley. 

The village of Hastings, in the town of Greenburgh, is situated 
on the Hudson Eiver, on the line of the New York Central and 
Hudson River Railroad, a little over eighteen miles from New York 
City. It was incorporated as a village in the year 1879. Its popu- 
lation as shown by last census taken in Jan., 1898, is 1,712. It waa 
formerly a manufacturing center of considerable importance. It 
still maintains that feature, but to a limited extent. The factories 
and mills are confined to a locality bordering the water front and 
adjoining the tracks of the railroad company. The village proper 
abounds in many handsome residences and is growing yearly as a 
resort for New York City business men in search of desirable homes 
within easy distance from the city. The schools, private and public, 
are of the best; the streets are well laid out, wide and macadamized, 
providing most excellent drives; thoroughfares are illuminated with 
gas and electricity, sidewalks are uniform and flagged. The public 
water supply is ample for all purposes. The present village ofhcers 
are: James E. Hogan, President; W. W. Tompkins, W. A. Switzer, 
Patrick E. Haley and William Ross, Trustees; Peter A. Hayes, 
Clerk; A. W. Bevers, Collector of Taxes; George T. Sackett, 
Treasurer. 

Dobbs Ferry, in the town of Greenburgh. was incorporated as a 
village on July 5, 1873. It overlooks the Hudson River and is in 
many respects one of the most attractive suburban localities within 
less than one hour's ride from New York City, which is nineteen 
and a half miles distant. Frequent' daily trains on the New York 
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city. Steamboats also run between the village and city. The pop- 
ulation of the village was, at the last census, taken in Jan., 1898, 
2,840. The village was originally known as Dobbs Ferry. To the 
fact that a fisherman named Jeremiah Dobbs, a Swede, living in the 
locality where the village is now situated, ferried travelers occa- 
sionally across the Hudson, prior to and during the Eevolution, is 
due the village's title. It was Dobbs Ferry then, it has been Dobbs 
Ferry ever since, notwithstanding that the residents at one time de- 
termined in public meeting to give the village a better sounding and 
more appropriate title. The name of Greenburgh was chosen, and 
under this title the village labored for a short time, but it was soon 
found that the people longed for a return to the old-time name. An 
act of the Legislature permitted the village to resume its old title, 
and the ancient ferryman promises not soon to be forgotten. It 
was in this locality that Gen. Washington and Sir Guy Carleton (in 
command of the British Army) and Gov. Clinton met on May 3, 
1783, after the suspension of hostilities, to arrange for a final ter- 
mination of strife and for the granting of that independence for 
which the Americans had so nobly fought. Ebenezer Hazard was 
appointed first postmaster of New York City Oct. 5, 1775, by the 
Continental Congress, on the recommendation of the New York 
Provincial Congress. On Aug. 3, 1776, the day after the retreat of 
the American Army from Long Island, he was ordered by the Com- 
radttee of Safety to Dobbs Ferry, and in this neighborhood the New 
York post office remained until after the evacuation of the city by 
the British Army, in Nov., 1783. The village contains the hand- 
some villas and country seats of many of New York City's most 
wealthy merchants and professional men. It maintains most ex- 
cellent schools, a national bank and a savings bank. It has an 
abimdant water supply. Electricity and gas are used for illuminat- 
ing purposes, in streets and residences; streets are macadamized and 
sidewalks flagged. The village supports churches of four different 
denominations, viz.: A Presbyterian, an Episcopalian, a Methodist 
and a Eoman Catholic. 

The present officers of the village are: W. P. Brown, Presi- 
dent; Sylvester L. Storms, James J. Gillespie, John W. Lawrence 
and Alonzo Ackerman, Trustees; Lewis F. Murray, Clerk; Henry E. 
Bliss. Treasurer; J. Eugene Baker, Collector. 

The village of Ardsley, which lies adjacent to the village of 
Dobbs Ferry, was incorporated in 1896, and has, according to the 
cersus taken in Jan., 1898, a population of 372. It is principally a 
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easy of access, as both the New York Central and Hudson Eiver 
Eailroad and the Putnam Division of the New York Central Eail- 
road have stations in the village. The present village olhcers: W. 
I. Odell, President; George Q. Johnson, M. D., and S. G. M. Travis, 
Trustees; William E. Slocum, Clerk; John H. Odell, Treasurer. 

The village of Irvington was incorporated in 1872, and at the 
time of the last census enumeration, in Jan., 1898, had a population 
of 2,013. The village is charmingly situated on the banks of the 
Hudson Eiver, and contains the palatial residences of some of the 
nation's most wealthy men. It is on the line of the New York Cen- 
tral and Hudson Eiver Eailroad, twenty-three miles from New York 
City. The place was formerly known as "Dearman," named in 
honor of one of its earliest residents. The present name of the 
village is derived from Washington Irving, whose former home, 
*' Sunny side,'' is located near the northern boundary line of the in- 
corporation. The village is famous for its broad macadamized 
streets and the modern public improvements with wliich it is sup- 
plied. The present village officers are: Henry H. Cannon, Presi- 
dent; John Gibbons, Anthou}- Fallon, William E. Louergan and 
John O'Connor, Trustees; T. W. Crisfield, Clerk; John Vaughen, 
Collector of Taxes; Daniel Gilligan, Treasurer. 

Tarrjiown, or as it was originally known, Tarwetown, was set- 
tled by the Dutch shortly after 1680. The latter name was derived 
from the Dutch word "tarwe," meaning wheat; an overabundance 
of that particular grain in the locality probably suggested it being 
called "the wheat town." The present village was incorporated 
in 1870. The population in 1880 was 3,025, in 1890 it was 3,563, 
in January, 1898, it was 4,674. The town's location is most delight- 
ful, commanding one of the finest views up and down the Hudson 
River. It overlooks the Tappan Zee at the widest point of the river. 
It is an important station on the Hudson Eiver Eailroad, twenty-six 
miles from New York City. A steam ferry connects this village 
with the village of Nyack, on the opposite side of the Hudson, dur- 
ing the summer months. Steamboats make daily trips to and from 
New York City. This village is said to be one of the wealthiest, if 
not the wealthiest village, in tliis country, considering the value 
of real estate and value of the personal property of its inhabitants. 

The Westchester County Savings Bank was incorporated by an 
act of the Legislature passed July 21, 1853. 

The Legislature by an act passed April 9, 1852, gave John C. 
Bard authority to establish a ferry across the Hudson Eiver from 
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A franchise was given David I). Smith and Tunis Smith for a 
ferry between Tarrytown and Nyack, by an act of the Legislature 
passed April 21, 1870. 

Solomon Lodge, No. 196, F. and A. M., was started in White 
Plains in 1812, and in 1820 it became established in Tarrytown. 
Conqueror Hook and Ladder Company was incorporated April 10, 
1860; Rescue Fire Engine Company was incorporated April 16, 
1860; the Tarrytown Fire Department was incorporated May 5, 
1870. 

The following are village officers: Charles Gross, President; 
Edward S. Yocum, Andrew H. Brown, Peter Tidaback, Wilham J. 
Odell, George D. Minton and Edward Buckhout, Trustees; Warren 
C. Brown, Clerk; Frederick A. Eussell, Treasurer; Thomas Rawcliff, 
Collector of Taxes. Post office address, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



JAMES BIRD. 

James Bird, former President of 
the village of Tarrytown, was born 
in Tarrytown, on December 24, 
1834, a son of Edmund and Sarah 
(Howes) Bird. He was educated at 
Newman's Academy, and at an 
early age entered upon an active 
business life. He was married in 
December, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth 
Olmstead, daughter of Silas and 
Nancy Olmstead, of Tarrytown; his 
wife died in 1882. He was married 
August 10, 1888, to Miss Louisa H. 
Miller, of Tarrytown. Mr. Bird has 
for years been conspicuous in pub- 
lic affairs, a leader among his fel- 
low-citizens. He is a Republican. 
He was elected as a Trustee of the 
village of North Tarrytown for two 
consecutive years; later President 
of that village three years; Treas- 
urer of the school district several 
years, and was chief engineer of the 
Fire Department. President of the 
village of Tarrytown, two years 
member of the National Associa- 
tion of Chief Engineers of Fire De- 
partments; prominent official in 
Solomon's Lodge, F. and A. M.; 
high priest of R. A. M. several 
terms; a sir knight of the West- 
chester Commandery, and a mem- 
ber of the Mystic Shrine of Mecca 



Temple, New York. Is also a mem- 
ber of the Sons of the Revolution. 
His grandfather, Edmund Bird, 
joined the revolutionary army at 
Boston, when 19 years of age, under 
Col. Vose, and continued through- 
out the war, rising from a drummer 
boy to the position of a major. He 
took part in many important en- 
gagements, and was promoted for 
bravery and at the end received a 
gold medal from the hands of Gen. 
Washington. Mr. Bird's father 
served in the war of 1812. 

BARNETT H. ENGELKE. 

Barnett Henry Engelke, Water 
Commissioner, was born August 
24, 1839, in Pine Plains, N. Y., a 
son of Henry and Christine (von 
Eckel) Engelke. He was educated 
in the public schools of New York 
city and at an eai'ly age engaged 
in mercantile pursuits with con- 
siderable success. He was for a 
number of years employed in for- 
eign trade, with the West Indies 
and South America. When the 
civil war broke out he was in Ber- 
muda. He returned to his home 
and enlisted in July, 1861, as a 
member of the First New York 
Mounted Rifles. In 1862 he was ap- 
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In 1864 he was appointed aide-de- 
camp on the staff of Gen. A. V. 
Kautz, and as acting ordnance offi- 
cer of the cavalry division of the 
Army of the James. Subsequently 
he served on the staff of Gen. R. 
S. MacKenzie. He participated in 
thirty-two engagements, beginning 
with those on the Peninsula and 
ending at Appomattox Court House, 
Va. From 1865 to 1868 he was on 
special duty in the Department of 
Missouri, at the headquarters of 
Gen. W. T. Sherman. In 1868 he 
engaged in business in St. Louis. 
On June 23, 1868, he was married 
to Miss Elizabeth Lovejoy Brant, 
daughter of Col. Henry B. and Ma- 
tilda Brant, of St. Louis, Mo. She 
died May 11, 1898. He became a 
member of Oriental R. A. Chapter 
and Ascalon Commandery K. T., 
No. 16, St. Louis, Mo., and St. Louis 
Lodge, No. 9, B. P. O. Elks. In 
1885 he removed to Tarrytown and 
engaged in the general grocery bus- 
iness, which business he still con- 
tinues. In 1886 he was appointed 
by the Tarrytown Board of Village 
Trustees as a member of the Board 
of Health and was elected president 
of that boa/ two terms. He was 
elected in 1897 on the Citizens' 
ticket as a Water Commissioner of 
the village and chosen president of 
the board. In politics Mr. Engelke 
is a Democrat of the old school. He 
is a conservative business man and 
generally respected. 



Republican Club, was formerly a 
member of the Tarrytown Board of 
Health, and is now the Village San- 
itary Inspector; has held the office 
of regent in the Kyk-Uit Council, 
R. A., for two years, and is a ves- 
tryman of St. Mark's Protestant 
Episcopal Church, of North Tarry- 
town. His occupation is that of a 
real estate broker, expert appraiser 
and general auctioneer. 



JOHN W. FREE. 

John W. Free, of Tarrytown, was 
born on January 11, 1856, in Beek- 
mantown (now North Tarrytown), 
in the town of Mount Pleasant, and 
is a descendant of one of the oldest 
Westchester County families, prom- 
inent even prior to the revolution. 
He is a son of John H. and Sarah 
M. (Warner) Free. Was educated 
in the public schools of his native 
town. He was married June 11, 
1880, to Miss Addle L. Brewer, 
daughter of Abram and Lavinia 
Brewer, of Tarrytown. Mr. Free 
is a man of affairs, a public-spir- 
ited citizen. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, at all times interested in 
the success of his party principles. 
He is president of the Young Men's 



CHARLES GROSS. 

Charles Gross, President of the 
village of Tarrytown, was born in 
that village on June 17, 1865, a son 
of August and Anna Maria (Bing) 
Gross. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native town, 
and being industriously inclined, 
at the age of 22 he entered into 
partnership with his father and 
brother John, under the firm of A. 
F. Gross & Sons. They succeeded 
Messrs. Biers & Parnell in the 
meat market business, and at pres- 
ent it is one of the most reliable 
and representative establishments 
of Tarrytown. He was married on 
February 15, 1887, to Miss Jose- 
phine Dann, of Tarrytown, who 
died the following year. His sec- 
ond marriage took place on October 
24, 1894, when Miss Carrie Taylor, 
of New York city, became his wife. 
In politics Mr. Gross is a Republi- 
can, has been chairman for a num- 
ber of years of his district commit- 
tee, a member of the County Com- 
mittee and a delegate to county, 
district and Assembly conventions. 
The first political position held by 
him was that of village Trustee, to 
which he was elected in 1892. In 
1893 he was re-elected for two 
years, having been nominated on 
the Republican ticket and endorsed 
on the Democratic ticket. He de- 
clined the nomination the following 
year. In 1896 he was waited on by 
a committee of citizens to be their 
candidate for President of the vil- 
lage, which he also declined. In 
1897 he was nominated on the Re- 
i publican ticket for Trustee and en- 
dorsed on the Democratic ticket. 
: but declined. He was then placed 
in nomination as President on a 
Citizens' ticket, to which office he 
was elected by a large majority 




FRANK V. MILLARD. 




JAMES BIRD. 




GEORGE HOPE MAIRS. 




CHARLES GROSS. 




FRANK R. PIERSON. 





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over a popular opponent. His ad- 
ministration of the office proved so 
acceptable to his fellow-citizens 
that he was forced to again become 
a candidate for the Presidency in 
1898 and again he was elected by an 
equally large majority. Mr. Gross 
Is an active fireman, was one of the 
organizers of Jackson Engine Com- 
pany, No. 1, and was foreman of 
that company for six years, and 
three years secretary. He was for- 
merly a member of Irving Hose 
Company, in which company he 
held the office of secretary two 
years and assistant foreman one 
year. He is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church of Irvington and 
a member of the Board of Deacons 
of that church. Mr. Gross enjoys 
the distinction of being the young- 
est member ever elected to the 
Board of Trustees, and also the 
youngest president. 



SAMUEL T. KNAPP. 

Samuel T. Knapp, a former Vil- 
lage Trustee, of Tarrytown, was 
born in Clarkstown, Rockland 
County, N. Y., on April 21, 1847, a 
son of William and Elizabeth (Van 
Orden) Knapp. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native 
town. He is, as he has oeen for 
years, proprietor of livery, sale and 
exchange stables at Tarrytown. He 
is considered one of the substantial 
business men of his home village. 
He has served his village in the 
capacity of Village Trustee for five 
years. As a member oi the local 
Board of Health, he has proved 
specially useful. He is one of the 
original members of Hope Hose 
Company, of Tarrytown, and for 
many years was at the head of that 
organization as its foreman; is a 
member of the Exempt Firemen's 
Association. In politics Mr. Knapp 
has always acted with the Demo- 
cratic party. He was married on 
October 25, 1882, to Miss Emma 
Dammann, daughter of Bernard 
and Caroline Dammann, of Tarry- 
town. 



AUGUSTUS KONRAD. 

Augustus Konrad, resident of 
Tarrytown, was born in Moriches, 



Suffolk County, N. Y., on May 28, 
1855, a son of Philip and Jane 
(Lyte) Konrad. He was educated 
in private schools and in Williston 
Seminary. He removed to Tarry- 
town at an early age. In the latter 
place he has long been closely iden- 
tified with public affairs; in politics 
he associates himself with the Re- 
publican party. He has been elect- 
ed to the office of Justice of the 
Peace, was a member of the Town 
Board of Health, a Special Deputy 
Sheriff, member of the Village 
Board of Health, served many 
years as agent for the American 
Society for the Prevention of Cru- 
elty to Animals, is deputy grand 
chief templar of the I. O. G. T. of 
New York State, and is a deacon of 
the Second Reformed Church. He 
was married on August 8, 1885, to 
Miss Christina Glass, daughter of 
David Glass, of Tarrytown. Mr. 
Konrad is at present secretary of 
the Hudson River Gas and Electric 
Light Company. 



ALFRED LAWRENCE. 

Alfred Lawrence, former Chief of 
Police of the village of Tarrytown, 
was born on June 15, 1809, in the 
city of New York, a son of John 
and Maria (Crane) Lawrence. He 
was educated in the Duane Street 
School in his native city. He be- 
came a resident of Tarrytown in 
the year 1828, and has resided there 
continuously. In August, 1841, Mr. 
Lawrence was married to Miss 
Emily Minerly, of the town of 
Mount Pleasant. She died July 22, 
1878. He was again married on 
August 5, 1885, to Miss Emiline 
Cole, daughter of Jacob and Aletia 
Cole, of Dutchess County. Through 
the efforts of Mr. Lawrence a Fire 
Department was organized in Tar- 
rytown, in 1860. He was elected its 
chief engineer. In 18G1 Mr. Law- 
rence induced thirty-five members 
of the Fire Department to enlist 
with him for a term of two years, 
in Company H, of the Thirty-second 
Regiment, New York State Volun- 
teers. Mr. Lawrence took part, 
with his regiment, in all the great 
battles on the Potomac. He en- 
listed as a private, but returned as 
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moted for bravery. Besides filling 
the office of Chiei of Police for 
many years, Mr. Lawrence held for 
twenty years or more the position 
of Deputy Sheriff, and also that of 
Overseer of the Poor and Constable 
of the town of Greenburgh. He was 
for a long period one of the best- 
known auctioneers in the county. 
In latter years he has been engaged 
in the hotel business. Mr. Law- 
rence is a Democrat in politics. 



RICHARD LIVINGSTON. 

Richard Livingston, of Tarry- 
town, was born in Ireland, on 
March 17, 1866, a son of Joseph 
and Sarah J. (Taggart) Livingston. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of Tarrytown, to which 
place he removed with his parents 
when he was but six years of age, 
and where he has since resided. He 
was early apprenticed to the car- 
penter trade and now is an employ- 
ing carpenter and builder, and is 
also a member of the shoe firm of 
Aldridge & Co. He is unmarried. 
He takes an active interest in pub- 
lic affairs; politically he is classi- 
fied as a Republican. He has served 
in several village and school dis- 
trict offices, in the Republican 
Town Committee, and has ably rep- 
resented his locality in political 
conventions. He is a prominent 
official in Solomon's Lodge, No. 196, 
F. and A. M. 



GEORGE H. MAIRS. 

George Hope Mairs, of Irving- 
ton, town of Greenburgh, though 
born in the city of New York, is 
considered as a native of the said 
town, owing to the fact that his 
parents became residents of that 
place within a few months after 
Mr. Mairs' birth, which occurred 
on December 16, 1866, and the fact 
that as long as the latter can re- 
member distinctly he has been a 
resident of Irvington. He is a son 
of John D. and Mary (St. John) 
Mairs. His ancestors are entitled 
to a prominent place in the coun- 
try's early history and his family 
connections are of the best in the 
State. He received his preparatory 
education in St. Paul's School, Con- 



cord, N. H., and afterward entered 
Harvard University, from which he 
graduated in 1889. He began busi- 
ness as a broker as a member of 
the firm of Thompson & Mairs, with 
offices in New York city, and this 
same business co-partnership con- 
tinues. In politics Mr. Mairs has 
always been identified with the Re- 
publican party, but never until 1897 
was he a candidate for office, then 
only after repeated urgings did he 
consent to accept his party's nom- 
ination for member of Assembly in 
the Second Assembly District. 
Though an active business man, he 
recognizes that a duty devolving 
upon good citizenship requires that 
even men closest employed with 
their private affairs owe some sac- 
rifice of time to the public inter- 
ests. Though defeated in his race 
for the Assembly, Mr. Mairs, a 
comparatively unknown man, as- 
tonished the politicians by over- 
coming a strong Democratic ma- 
jority in that portion of the district 
lying within Westchester County. 
On August 27, 1898, Mr. Mairs, at 
White Plains, received the Republi- 
can nomination for State Senator. 
He was married on April 26, 1894, 
to Miss Caroline Elise Jaffray 
Hurst, daughter, of F. W. J. and 
Caroline (Jaffray) Hurst, of Irving- 
ton. 



FRANK V. MILLARD. 

Frank Vincent Millard, of Tarry- 
town, was born February 27, 1867, 
in the village of Tarrytown, a son 
of James S. and Elizabeth A. 
(Purdy) Millard. He received his 
preparatory education in the 
schools of Tarrytown and gradu- 
ated with special honor from Yale 
University in the class of 1888, after 
which he studied law and was duly 
admitted to practice on February 
13, 1890. His success dates from 
the very commencement of his ca- 
reer, and though still a young man 
he occupies an enviable position 
near the very head of his profes- 
sion in the county. He early took 
an active part and prominent place 
in politics. In 1896 he was chosen 
chairman of the Republican County 
Committee to succeed ex-Judge 
William H. Robertson, who had 
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years, and who had declined re- 
election on account of ill health. 
Mr. Millard has been re-elected 
each year since. He has represent- 
ed his party in local, county, ju- 
dicial, Congressional, State and na- 
tional conventions. The iirst office 
to which he was elected was that of 
Town Clerk, then followed his elec- 
tion as Supervisor in 1892, the first 
Republican ever elected Supervisor 
in the town of Greenburgh. He 
was subsequently appointed coun- 
sel to the Town Board, to the Board 
of Assessors, to the Board of High- 
way Commissioners of both the 
towns of Greenburgh and Mount 
Pleasant, to the Excise Board, to 
the Board of Health, to the Tarry- 
town Village Board of Trustees, 
and to various village boards; 
Counsel for the town of Mount 
Pleasant, counsel for the County 
Superintendent of the Poor; was 
elected a member of the Tarrytown 
Board of Education, trustee and 
counsel for the Westchester County 
Savings Bank. He was for eight 
years foreman of Hope Hose Com- 
pany No. 1, of Tarrytown, and is 
chairman of the Board of Directors 
of the Exempt Firemen's Associa- 
tion, and assistant engineer of the 
department; is president of the 
Young Men's Lyceum. He is also 
a member of Solomon's Lodge, No. 
196, P. and A. M. Mr. Millard was 
married December 30, 1891, to Miss 
Grace Requa, daughter of Isaac Re- 
qua, of Tarrj'town. Mr. Millard 
has always resided in his native 
village. 



FRANK R. PIERSON. 

Frank R. Pierson, Water Com- 
missioner and president of the 
Board of Education, of Tarrytown, 
was born in Boston, Mass., on Jan- 
uary 22, 1855, a son of Paul R. B. 
and Eliza (Romer) Pierson. He 
comes of good American stock, his 
ancestors having been closely iden- 
tified with the early history of this 
country and active on the right side 
during the revolutionary period. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of his native city. He be- 
came a resident of Tarrytown in 
1866, where he is engaged in busi- 
ness as an importer and dealer in 



plants and bulbs, and is the most 
extensive rose grower in the United 
States. As a business man he is 
best known. He was elected a 
member of the first Board of Wa- 
ter Commissioners of the village of 
Tarrytown, and served in the ca- 
pacity of secretary to the board. 
He continued in that office until 
pressure of business compelled his 
resignation. As a member of the 
local Board of Education he has 
been of valuable service. As pres- 
ident of that body he was able to 
assist materially in formulating 
plans for the construction of new 
school buildings much needed. The 
Washington Irving High School 
building just completed in Tarry- 
town is due greatly to his untiring 
zeal and persistent effort. The 
building has been pronounced by 
the State authorities to be one of 
the best-equipped institutions for 
school purposes in the State. Mr. 
Pierson is one of the original mem- 
bers of the Tarrytown Improve- 
ment Society. He has been for 
years president of the Board of 
Trustees of Asbury Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. He is a charter 
member of Hope Hose Company, 
Tarrytown, and has been fifteen 
years an active member of same. 
In politics Mr. Pierson is a Repub- 
lican. 



FREDERICK A. RUSSELL. 

Frederick A. Russell, Treasurer 
of the village of Tarrytown, was 
born at Marion, N. Y., on January 
24, 1855, a son of Giles B. and Maria 
A. (Holcomb) Russell. He was ed- 
ucated at Marion Collegiate Insti- 
tute and Eastman's Business Col- 
lege. In 1874 he removed to the 
town of Greenburgh, where he has 
continued to reside. He was mar- 
ried in 1875 to Miss Mary A. Brown, 
daughter of George Brown, of Pal- 
myra. Mr. Russell is an active Re- 
publican and as such he was ap- 
pointed as Drug Appraiser in the 
New York Custom House in 1890 
and served four years. He has 
served two years as Village Treas- 
urer. Mr. Russell entered the drug 
business as an apprentice when 12 
years of age, and has been engaged 
almost continuously in it since that 



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time. Served as clerk in Palmyra 
and Yonkers, and in 1875 estab- 
lished a store at Irvington, N. Y., 
as proprietor, remaining there 
eleven years. In March, 1894, en- 
gaged in business at Tarrytown as 
a member of the firm of Russell & 
Lawrie. Mr. Russell's long and 
practical business experience, cou- 
pled with his personal popularity 
and high character, earned among 
a critical community to which he 
came an entire stranger, has added 
much to the success of his firm. 
This was attested when he unwill- 
ingly accepted a nomination for 
village Treasurer, and was elected 
over his opponent, who had held 
the office for fifteen years, and 
again the next year when he was 
re-elected, and was the only one on 
his ticket thus honored. 



EDWIN A. STUDWELL. 

Edwin A. Studwell, president of 
the Health Board, village of Tarry- 
town, was born in South Salem 
July 22, 1837, a son of Edwin and 
Eliza (Hull) Studwell. His father, 
who is still living at the age of 95 
years, is a lineal descendant of 
Thomas Studwell, who, with three 
others, purchased in 1660 from the 
Dutch "West India Company a 
greater part of what is now the 
town of Rye, and of William 
Mead, who came to this country 
in 1640, and settled near Green- 
wich, Conn. On his mother's side 
his connections are equally illus- 
trious, his grandfather and other 
relatives having fought in the early 
Indian wars and for American in- 
dependence. In 1857 Mr. Studwell 
left his father's farm to seek a. for- 
tune in New York city. He became 
identified with an extensive shoe 
manufacturing and jobbing busi- 
ness. As is quite natural, he in 
early life took to politics, identi- 
fying himself with the abolition 
movement. As a member of the 
"Home Guards" he assisted in pro- 
tecting the New York Tribune 
office, Plymouth Church and the 
home of Henry Ward Beecher, dur- 
ing the riots in 1863. In 1866 he 
was an advocate of woman's suf- 
frage and became prominent in all 
movements organized to advance 
that cause. In 1866 he became pub- 



lisher of the official organ of the 
radical branch of the Hicksite 
Friends. After the close of the 
civil war Mr. Studwell became in- 
terested in the reorganization of 
the Southern States, his business 
interests in the State of Florida ac- 
quainting him with what he con- 
sidered to be the wants of the 
South. To his organization is said 
to be due the credit of the Repub- 
licans controlling for a long time 
the State of Florida. In 1868 he 
was chosen a Grant Presidential 
Elector from the Third Congres- 
sional District (Brooklyn) of New 
York. In 1871 he assisted in or- 
ganizing the National Bureau of 
Migration, with Horace Greely as 
president. Gen. Franz Sigel as 
chairman of Executive Committee 
and himself as chairman of the 
Finance Committee. In 1872 he 
founded a town on the St. John's 
River, naming it in honor of Henry 
Ward Beecher. In 1872 he was 
elected a delegate from Florida to 
the National Convention of the Lib- 
eral Republican party, which nomi- 
nated Horace Greely for President. 
He was president for twelve years 
of the Florida Improvement Com- 
pany. He became active as a mem- 
ber of the Anti-Saloon Republican 
League. In 1884 he removed from 
Brooklyn to Tarrytown. In 1886, 
at the organization of the Poeantico 
Water Company, he became its 
president, and under his adminis- 
tration, during three years, water 
was introduced into the villages of 
North Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry and 
Hastings. He was instrumental in 
having the first Republican League 
organized in the United States — 
that is the Greenburgh Republican 
League, still in existence. Mr. 
Sttldwell, on September 23, 1862, 
was married, by the Friends' cere- 
mony, to Miss Mary Brown Mer- 
ritt, daughter of John J. and Han- 
nah Brown Merritt, of Brooklyn; 
she died October 5, 1873. He was 
remarried December 15, 1876, to 
Miss Emeliza Close, daughter of Jo- 
seph B. Close, of Bayonne City, N. 
J., but formerly of New York city. 
Her father's family settled near 
Greenwich, Conn., early in the six- 
teenth century, but removed to 
North Salem prior to the revolu- 
tion. 



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FREDERICK E. WEEKS. 

Frederick E. Weeks, Assistant 
District Attorney of the county, 
was born in the town of Mount 
Pleasant on October 6, 1870, a son 
of Abel and Elmira F. (Miller) 
Weeks. He was educated in the 
North Tarrytown Public School and 
subsequently studied law, graduat- 
ing from the New York University 
Law School. He removed with his 
parents to the adjoining village of 
Tarrytown about 1888, where he at 
present resides. He took an early 
interest in politics, connecting him- 
self with the Republican party, and 
this fact, associated with the fact 
that he was capable of filling the 
position, secured for him the ap- 
pointment to the oflBce of assistant 
to District Attorney George C. An- 
drews, in January, 1896. Mr. 
Weeks had for some time been a 
member of the Seventy-first Regi- 
ment, N. Y. S. N. G., before war 
had been declared between the 
United States and Spain. When his 
regiment received marching orders 
he resigned his position and re- 



ported to his regiment for duty as a 
good soldier, which he has proven 
himself to be. He was urged by 
friends not to enlist for the war 
with his regiment, on the ground 
that his health, then none the best, 
would not permit his undergoing 
the hardships and fatigues of army 
life, and endeavored to prove to 
him that on account of physical 
disability he could not be required 
or expected to enlist with his reg- 
iment. In spite of this he, accom- 
panied by a younger brother, went 
to the front, took part in the battles 
fought at Santiago de Cuba, was 
commended for bravery displayed, 
and came home broken in health 
and promising to be an invalid for 
some time to come. He has for a 
long period been an official and 
prominent in Conqueror Hook and 
Ladder Company, of Tarrytown; is 
a member of Solomon's Lodge, No. 
196, F. and A. M.; a member of 
Westchester Lodge, I. O. O. F., and 
member of the Junior Order of 
American Mechanics. He is un- 
married. 



TOWN OF HAKKISON. 



Prior to 1702 this town was a part of the town of Rye, and be- 
came a separate town organization March 7, 1788. It is bounded on 
the north by North Castle, east and southerly by Eye, west by Ma- 
maroneck, White Plains and North Castle; the south line of the 
town is about one mile from the Sound, and the northeast comer 
toucheg upon the west line of Connecticut; is distant thirty miles 
from New York City. The town can be readily reached by way of 
White Plains, on the Harlem Railroad, as it is only three miles dis- 
tant east of the latter place, or from Harrison Station, on the New 
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. 

The town derives its name from John Harrison, who became 
owner of the land, on wliich the town was erected, by purchase from 
the Indians in 1695. The town was oftentimes called "The Pur- 
chase" and "Harrison's Precinct." Records tell little about John 
Harrison's history previous to the investment which deprived Rye 
of much of its cherished land. 

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well-cultivated, drained by Blind Brook (Mockquams) and Mamar- 
oneck Eiver, running south, into Long Island Sound. Some of 
the finest farms in Westchester County may be found in this town, 
as well as some of the most handsomely laid out country seats. 

According to the town's record, the first town meeting was held 
April 2, 1776, when Samuel Haviland was chosen Supervisor, to- 
gether with other oflicials. The next meeting of the electors in 
Harrison's Precinct, held April 1, 1783, elected Isaac Maynard 
Supervisor. Names of Supervisors who follow will be found on 
another page. The present town officers are: Supervisor, George 
T. Gray, post office address White Plains; Town Clerk, Frank P. 
Coxe, Harrison Station; Collector of Taxes, Michael H. White, Pur- 
chase; Assessors, James H. Hyatt, Albert Sutton and Nicholas E. 
Burger; Justices of the Peace, Emmett S. Crowe, Harrison, August 
C. Beyer, White Plains, John C. Haviland, Eye, Andrew Garrett, 
White Plains; Commissioners of Highways, David M. Haviland, 
Harrison, Frederick P. Schmaling, Port Chester, Isaac Carpenter, 
White Plains. The Supervisor, Town Clerk, Justices of the Peace 
and Citizen Member George T. Burling composed the Board of 
Health; Health Officer, L. E. Peeler, M. D. 

According to the census enumerations made in the several years 
the population of this town was as follows: In 1830, 1,085; 1835, 
1,016; 1840, 1,139; 1845, 1,039; 1850, 1,262; 1855, 1,271; 1860, 
1,413; 1865, 1,380; 1870, 787; 1875, 1,431; 1880, 1,494; 1890, 1,485. 



TOWN OF LEWISBOKO. 



This town was first organized as Salem, under the act of March 
7, 1788. The name was changed to South Salem April 6, 1806, and 
again changed to Lewisboro on Feb. 13, 1840. The title of South 
Salem was given to distinguish it from the northern town of similar 
name. The last change was made in honor of John Lewis, who, in 
1840, gave the sum of $10,000 to establish a fund to aid in the main- 
tenance of the town's public schools. That fund is still in existence 
and trustees to care for it are regularly chosen. Mr. Lewis died Oct. 
1, 1871, and his remains are interred in the old Lewisboro Burying 
Ground. The town is boimded on the north by North Salem; east 
by the State of Connecticut; south and west by the towns of Pound- 
ridge and Bedford; west by Somers. Distant fifty miles from New 
York City. 

Goldens Bridge, within the town's limits, is situated on the 
Harlem Railroad; South Salem is seven miles from Katonah, nearest 



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etation, Harlem Eailroad; Lewisboro and Cross Eiver axe also 
reached by way of Katonah. 

Like neighboring towns, Lewisboro formerly belonged to the 
Province of Connecticut. In this town Major Andre found a tem- 
porary prison shortly after his capture at Tarrytown. Here he 
wrote the letter to Gen. Washington, confessing as to who he was 
and the nature of the business that brought him in the locality 
where his capture was effected. The early history of Lewisboro is 
more than interesting, but limited space will not permit here of 
lengthy historical reviews. 

The town's population as given by census enumerations was in 
1830, 1,537; in 1835, 1,470; in 1840, 1,619; in 1845, 1,514; in 1850, 
1,608; in 1855, 1,775; in 1860, 1,885; in 1865, 1,653; in 1870, 1,601; 
in 1875, 1,508; in 1880, 1,612; in 1890, 1,417. 

The greater portion of the town is composed of most desirable 
farm land, where fruit and all kinds of farm products thrive abund- 
antly. Its water supply is ample. 

A fair average estimated value of land per acre is said to be $45. 
The town has no indebtedness. The town's assessed valuation, this 
year, is: Eeal, $853,141; personal, $183,885. The rate of tax this 
year is $6.99 per $1,000. Property sold for unpaid taxes at auction 
is bought usually by private individuals. Back taxes are payable to 
the Supervisor. 

The town has no lawyers among its residents. The physicians 
are Dr. W. H. Stowe, Cross Eiver, and Dr. J. H. Churchill, South 
Salem. There are no banking institutions in the town. 

Members of the Town Board also act as members of the Health 
Board and of the Board of Auditors. Dr. W. H. Stowe is Town 
Health Officer. 

The postmasters in the town are: George Bennett, GoldeuB 
Bridge; William Moore, Cross Eiver; Henry E. Johns, Lake Wacca- 
buc; Stephen G. Seymour, Lewisboro; Eufus E. Smith, Vista; 
George Lawrence, South Salem. 

The churches in the town are the Methodist at Goldens Bridge, 
Baptist and Methodist at Cross Eiver, Presbyterian and Episcopa- 
lian at South Salem. Methodist and Baptist at Vista. 

The first record of a town meeting held in the town is that of 
the one held April 2, 1751, when Jacob Wall was named for Super- 
visor, together with other town officers. 

The present officers of the town are: James P. Lawrence, Su- 
pervisor, South Salem; Frederick Howe, Town Clerk, Cross Eiver; 
Collector of Taxes, Ezra B. Scofield, Poundridge; Justices of the 



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Peace, Samuel H. Lawrence, Cross Kiver; C. C. Green, Goldens 
Bridge; Stephen G. Seymour, Lewisboro; Assessors, Stephen Hoyt, 
South Salem; Jared E. Mead, Lake Waccabuc, and Cyrus Bishop, 
Lewisboro. 



BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



SAMUEL H. LAWRENCE. 

Samuel H. Lawrence, a Justice of 
the Peace, of Lewisboro, was born 
in that town on November 2, 1844, 
a son of George W. and Marietta 
(Hull) Lawrence. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native 
town and became engaged in the 
occupation of a farmer. He has al- 
ways resided at Cross River. On 
October 18, 1876, he was married to 
Miss Anna LeCount, daughter of 
Walter L. and Frances S. LeCount, 
of New Rochelle. Mr. Lawrence 
has for years taken an active inter- 
est in politics, associated with the 
Republican party. He has been a 
Justice of the Peace since 1894; was 
a Commissioner of Highways for 
twelve years and Town Clerk for 
five years. George W. Lawrence, 
the father of the subject of this 
sketch, was an influential citizen 
of the town, and Captain Samuel 
Lawrence, the grandfather, at an 
early age, joined the American 
Army and fought in the revolution, 
taking part in the Battle of White 
Plains and in other engagements. 
He remembered the burning of 
Young's House, near Blmsford, dur- 
ing the Battle of White Plains, as 
he was a witness of the scene. 



FREDERICK HOWE. 

Frederick Howe, Town Clerk of 
the town of Lewisboro, was born in 
Lewisboro on October 28, 1832, a 
son of Jeremiah and Lucy (Mead) 
Howe. His father served eight 
years as Supervisor and fifteen 
years as Town Clerk of the town of 
Lewisboro. His grandfather, Jere- 
miah Howe,was a soldier in the war 
of 1812, and his great grandfather 
won distinction in the revolution- 
ary war. On the maternal side he 
is a descendant of William Mead, 
who came to this country in 1640. 
Mr. Howe was educated in the pub- 
lic school of South Salem. Was 
married on November 10, 1874, to 
Miss Mary E. Morton, daughter of 
Oscar and Amelia P. Morton, of 
New York city. Since he became a 
voter Mr. Howe has been a Repub- 
lican. He has held the office of 
Town Clerk twenty-two years, the 
office of Trustee of the Lewis 
School Fund for twenty-four years 
and has been a member of the 
Town Health Board twenty-two 
years. 



TOWN OF MAMAEONECK. 



This town was organized under the general act in 1788. It 
was formerly a part of the Manor of Scarsdale. It is bounded, ac- 
cording to description at time of organization, on the south by New 
Eochelle, east by Long Island Sound, north by the Mamaroneck 
Eiver, west by the town of Scarsdale. Distant twenty-one miles 
from New York City, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Eailroad. The name is of Indian origin, which interpreted means, 
"The place where the fresh water falls into the salt," derived 





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doubtlessly from the fact that the fresh water of the Mamaroneek 
Eiver runs into the salt water of the Sound. According to best 
advices, the lands at Mamaroneek were piirchased by John Kichbell, 
from the Indians, the Indian deed bearing date Sept. 23, 1661; 
Kichbell was an Englishman, representing many of his countrymen 
who had entrusted him with a commission to purchase desirable 
lands for settlement and mutual benefit. 

The first recorded town election was held on April 2, 1697, 
when Samuel Palmer was chosen Supervisor; he was at that period 
one of the town's most extensive property owners. At that same 
town meeting, William Palmer was elected Clerk and Constable; 
James Mott as Assessor, and Henry Disbrow as Collector and Sur- 
veyor of the Highways. 

The town's population as given in the different census reports 
has been as follows: In 1790, 452; in 1800, 503; in 1810, 496; in 
1814, 797; in 1820, 878; in 1825, 1,032; in 1830, 838; in 1835, 882; 
in 1840, 1,416; in 1845, 780; in 1850, 928; in 1855, 1,068; in 1860, 
1,351; in 1865, 1,392; in 1870, 1,484; in 1875, 1,425; in 1880, 1,863; 
in 1890, 2,385. 

The assessed valuation of real property in the town, according 
to the Assessors' last report, was $6,640,671; personal estate, $602,- 
785. The tax rate for this year is $3,985 on $1,000, inside of the 
village of Mamaroneek; $3.89 on $1,000 inside of the village of 
Larchmont; $6.51 on $1,000 outside of villages. 

The present officials of the town are: Supervisor, Charles M. 
Baxter; Town Clerk, John C. Fairchild; Justices of the Peace, Jo- 
seph H. McLaughlin, John W. McCabe, J. P. Canty and William E. 
Peters; Collector of Taxes, John C. Kane; Assessors, W. H. Tilford, 
W. H. Lang and Nehemiah Palmer. Post office address, Mamar- 
oneek, N. Y. 

Within the town limits are two villages, Larchmont and Ma- 
maroneek. 

Larchmont was incorporated as a village in 1891. According 
to a census enumeration taken in Jan., 1898, it has a population of 
711. Its present village officers are: Carsten Wendt, President; 
William H. Campbell and C. M. Bird, Trustees; L. S. Knevals, 
Clerk; A. C. Montross, Tax Collector; Joseph Bird, Treasurer. 

The village of Mamaroneek, which was incorporated 1895, and 
which is formed of part of the town of Mamaroneek and part of the 
adjacent town of Rye, according to a census enumeration taken in 
Jan., 1898, has a population of 3,729. The present officers of the 
village of Mamaroneek are: President, Joseph H. McLaughlin; 



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TniBteee, Jacob Halstead, Daniel Warren, William J. Herlyn, Thos. 
C. Palmer, Joseph Gilleaudeau, and George W. Haight; Clerk of 
the Village, Charles W. Buckter; Eeeeiver of Taxes, John C. Kane. 
This village is connected with White Plains, the county seat, by 
the Tarry town. White Plains and Mamaroneck Electric Eailroad. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



WILLIAM A. BOYD. 

William A. Boyd, postmaster and 
former Justice of the Peace of 
Mamaroneck, is a native of Mamar- 
oneck, and was born on November 
21, 1851, of American parentage. 
He is a son of William H. and 
Nancy (Nicks) Boyd. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of 
Mamaroneck and New York city. 
Mr. Boyd was married on July 10, 
1873, to Miss Mary Griffin, daugh- 
ter of James and Hester Griffin, of 
Mamaroneck. His wife died No- 
vember, 1883. On September 4, 
1892, he married Miss Elizabeth 
Anthes, daughter of Frederick and 
Dorethan Anthes, of Mamaroneck. 
Mr. Boyd has always taken an ac- 
tive interest in public affairs. In 
politics he is a Republican. As an 
evidence of his popularity atten- 
tion may be directed to the various 
offices to which he has been elected 
from time to time. He was ap- 
pointed postmaster of Mamaroneck 
by President Grant in 1873 and con- 
tinued in that office until 1885, was 
reappointed to the same office by 
President McKinley on March 17, 
1898; served as Town Clerk in 
1875-76, was a Justice of the Peace 
from 1881 to 1897, Clerk of the 
Town Board of Health from 1881 to 
1897, Collector of Taxes in 1887, 
Trustee of High School two years, 
captain of the Fire Patrol for seven 
years, and has been a member of 
the Republican County Committee, 
representing Mamaroneck, since 
1891. 



JACOB HALSTEAD. 

Jacob Halstead, a Trustee of the 
Village of Mamaroneck, was born in 
the town of Harrison, in this coun- 
ty, on April 9, 1860; a son of David 



I P. and Fannie A. (Cooley) Hal- 
1 stead. Was educated at Exeter, N. 
H., and at the New York University 
and Columbia Law School. He be- 
[ gan the study of law in the offices 
I of Winsor & Marsh, New York city, 
i and on his being admitted to the 
! bar, in February, 1884, accepted the 
i position of managing clerk in the 
j offices of Knox & Woodward, of 
' New York city. In 1886 he entered 
business on his own account. His 
i practice is general and his clientage 
I large; has been engaged in many 
j Important cases, and is highly re- 
: garded by judges on account of the 
j careful attention he gives to the 
i preparation of papers submitted in 
j actions conducted by him. He is an 
' easy and effective speaker and pop- 
i ular with jurors. In politics Mr. 
Halstead has always acted with the 
Republican party, and is to-day a 
recognized leader of that party in 
the county. For several years he 
has served his town as a member 
of the Republican County Commit- 
tee. He has for a number of years 
been one of three composing the 
District Committee of the Second 
Assembly District. He has repeat- 
edly been sent as a delegate to 
State, county and local conventions 
of his party. Five years ago he 
removed from the town of Harrison 
to his present residence in Mamar- 
oneck. Took an active interest in 
the incorporation of Mamaroneck 
and Rye Neck as a village, favoring 
the proposition. In the spring of 
1898 he was elected a Village Trus- 
tee. Is also a member of the Re- 
publican Club of New York city and 
a member of the Larchmont Yacht 
Club. Mr. Halstead was married on 
April 8, 1885, to Miss Clara S. Ken- 
worthy, daughter of Richard and 
Mary Kenworthy, of Poughkeepsie. 
They have one child, a son. 



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JOHN C. KANE. 

John C. Kane, Tax Collector of 
Mamaroneck, was born in Port 
Chester on June 27, 1854, a son of 
Michael and Elizabeth (Nilan) 
Kane. He was educated in private 
and public schools of Port Chester. 
Leaving school he became connect- 
ed with the bolt manufactory of 
Russell, Birdsall & Ward, where he I 
remained until appointed, in 1860, | 
as baggage master of the New j 
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- 
road, at Rye. He served ten years 
in the latter position and then was 
promoted to station agent of the 
same railroad at Mamaroneck, the 
position which he still holds. He < 
has served eight years as Tax Col- ] 
lector of the town of Mamaroneck 
and was, in 1897, elected first Tax 
Collector of the village of Mamar- 1 
oneck and rechosen at subsequent 
elections. Mr. Kane is a member 
of Court Bonny Brook, No. 284, F. 
of A., and a member of the C. B. \ 
L. Society of his town. He was i 
married January 3, 1877, to Miss 1 
Kate Maloy, daughter of Arthur | 
and Bridget Maloy, of Rye. 



structed that oflSce by the introduc- 
tion of modern methods. He is 
serving the last year of his fourth 
term as a Justice of the Peace. For 
several years he has served as a 
member of the Town Board of 
Health. He was elected President 
of the village of Mamaroneck in 
May, 1898, and is president of the 
Board of Trade. Mr. McLaughlin 
was a Democrat prior to 1888, then 
he espoused the cause of James G. 
Blaine, the Republican candidate 
for President, and has since re- 
mained a Republican. He was one 
of five to organize the first fire en- 
gine company, after the big fire in 
January, 1886, and for eight years 
he was foreman of Union Hook and 
Ladder Company. He is now presi- 
dent of the Fire Patrol. He is also 
vice-president of the local Building 
and Loan Association, and one of 
the original trustees of the Union 
Savings Bank of Westchester Coun- 
ty at Mamaroneck. Mr. McLough- 
lin was married May 18. 1876, to 
Miss Mary O'Neill, daughter of Ed- 
ward and Mary O'Neill, of Mamar- 
oneck. 



JOSEPH H. Mclaughlin. 

Joseph H. McLaughlin, President 
of the village of Mamaroneck, was 
born in Ireland on November 4, 
1847, a son of James and Ellen Mc- 
Laughlin. His father was a farmer 
and on his father's farm Mr. Mc- 
Laughlin spent his early days, and 
was able to attend school only at 
intervals; therefore, his education, 
for want of opportunity, was very 
meagre. In 1861 McLaughlin came 
to this country in company with a 
sister, and three months after ar- 
rival he secured a position as er- 
rand boy with a prominent firm in 
New York city, members of which 
firm have always remained his 
friends. In 1862 he removed to 
New Rochelle, in this county, where 
he learned the trade of a plumber. 
In 1871 he removed to Mamaroneck 
and by honest dealing was soon 
able to establish a prosperous busi- 
ness for himself, and being a man 
of progressive ideas he became 
prominent in public affairs. He 
was elected Town Clerk and recon- 



ALFRED M. PERRIN. 

Alfred M. Perrin, a former Jus- 
tice of the Peace, was born March 
24, 1835, in the town of Mamaro- 
neck, where he has since continued 
to reside. He is a son of John and 
Julia A. (Hobby) Perrin, and a 
lineal descendant of the Huguenots. 
Was educated in the public schools 
of his native town. He married on 
March 24, 1864, Miss Eliva J. Craw- 
ford, daughter of Walter and Su- 
sanah (Archer) Crawford, of 
Mamaroneck. Mr. Perrin was the 
first man to enlist from Mamaro- 
neck for the late civil war, he be- 
coming a member of Duryea'a 
Zouaves, the Fifth New York In- 

j fantry Regiment. He served as a 
School Trustee, District No. 1. from 
1871 to 1877; was elected a Justice 

1 of the Peace, serving from 1894 to 
1898. He subsequently ran as his 

I party's nominee for member of As- 

j sembly in the Second Westchester 
County District and was defeated. 
Mr. Perrin is a member of Apawa- 

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of Sheldrake Council, Royal Area- which post was named in honor of 
num, and a member of Flandreau John Flandreau, a cousin of Mr. 
Post, G. A. R., of New Rochelle, Perrin. 



TOWN OF MOUNT PLEASANT. 



The town of Moimt rieasant was erected under an act of 
March 7, 1788, and organized May 20, 1845. The township oiig- 
inally comprised all that part oi the Manor of riiihpsburgh lying 
north of Greenburgh. It is bounded north by the town of Ossiuing 
and New Castle, east by North Castle, south by Greenburgh, and 
west by Ossining and the Hudson Kiver. In 1845 the town was 
divided to permit the formation of the town of Ossining. It gets its 
name from its pleasant location upon high hills. The town's pop- 
ulation, according to the several census enumerations taken, has 
been as follows: In 1830, 4,932; in 1835; 5,757; in 1840, 7,308; in 
1845, 2,962; in 1850, 3,323; in 1855, 3,677; in 1860, 4,517; in 1865, 
4,389; in 1870, 5,210; in 1875, 5,411; in 1880, 5,450; in 1890, 5,844. 

The names of the persons who have filled the office of Super- 
visor in the town will be found on another page of this book, under 
the head of Supervisors. 

The present officers of the town are: Moses W. Taylor, Su- 
pervisor; J. Benedict See, Town Clerk; Andrew Tracy, Daniel Arm- 
strong, David H. Cox and Charles H. Hall, Justices of the Peace; 
John E. Murray, Collector of Taxes. Post office address, North 
Tarr}'town, N. Y. 

Sleepy Hollow, made famous by the writings of Washington 
Irving, is located in the town. The town contains two thriving 
villages, North Tarrytown and Pleasantville. Unionville, Sherman 
Park, East View, Neperan.Pocantico Hills, Kensico and Tarrytown 
Heights are also located in the town. 

The assessed value of real estate in the town, last year, was 
$9,903,349; personal property, $515,110. The tax rate for this year 
is $4,218 per $1,000, inside the villages of North Tarrytown and 
Pleasantville; $5.17 per $1,000 outside of villages. 

North Tarrytown, on the Hudson River, was incorporated as 
a village by vote of the electors on Dec. 17, 1874. Its first election 
was held March 16, 1875. Josiah F. Kendall was elected its first 
president. The locality was formerly named Beekmantown in honor 
of its principal land' owner. Its population in 1880 was 2,684, and 
in 1890 it was 3,179. In Jan., 1898, the census showed a population 
of 4,011. 




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EDWARD T. LOVATT. 




MOSES W. TAYLOR. 



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213 



The village fire department was organized in 1876. Within the 
village limits is located the beautiful and widely famed Sleepy Hol- 
low Cemetery, which, prior to April 11, 1865, was known as the 
Tarrytown Cemetery. The present officers of the village are: Jo- 
seph Ledwith, President; David Silver, Clerk; John Egan, Thomas 
Birdsall, Milton Purdy, John Cahill and Owen Martin, Trustees; 
Andrew Tracey, Collector; James Hawes, Treasurer. Post office 
address. North Tarrytown, N. Y. 

The North Tarrytown railroad station is at Tarrytown on the 
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. 

Pleasantville, on the Harlem Railroad, was incorporated as a 
Tillage in 1897, and, according to the special census taken in Jan., 
1898, has a population of 1,181. Its situation is very attractive, 
and each year adds to its popularity as a residence locality. The 
officers of the village are: Daniel P. Hays, President; William H. 
Bell, H. E. Washburn, R. Brundage, Jr., and Willet C. Brown, 
Trustees; William S. Moore, Clerk; Harry E. Smith, Tax Collector; 
James C. Bogen, Treasurer. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



DANIEL P. HAYS. 

Daniel Peixotto Hays, President 
of the Village of Pleasantville, was 
born in that place on March 28, 
1854; a son of David and Judith 
(Peixotto) Hays, and descendant of 
Jacob Hays, who was High Consta- 
ble of New York during the period 
of the revolution. His great-grand- 
father served with credit in the pa- 
triot army in the revolutionary 
war, and the homestead purchased 
by him at the close of that memora- 
ble struggle is still in possession of 
Mr. Hays. His preparatory educa- 
tion was obtained in the Thirteenth 
Street Public School, in the city of 
New York, and was graduated from 
the College of the City of New York 
in 1873. Having accepted employ- 
ment as an office boy in the law 
office of Carpentier & Beach while 
pursuing his studies, at the time of 
his graduation he had advanced to 
the position of managing clerk with 
the firm, and in 1877 was taken into 
partnership with the senior mem- 
ber, ex- Judge Beach, the new firm 
becoming Beach & Hays. A few 
months later, on the death of Judge 



Beach, Mr. Hays formed a co-part- 
nership with James S. Carpentier, 
the remaining member of the old 
firm, which was maintained until 
the death of the latter in 1885. Mr. 
Hays then became associated with 
Samuel Greenbaum, under the firm 
name of Hays & Greenbaum. On 
May 1, 1898, Abraham Hershfield 
was admitted, and the firm became, 
as at present, Hays, Greenbaum & 
Hershfield, with offices at 141 
Broadway, New York city. Doubt- 
less Mr. Hays is one of the best- 
known lawyers in New York, as he 
certainly ranks among the leaders 
of his profession. He is method- 
ical, painstaking and energetic and 
devoted to the cause of his clients, 
facts to which his popularity is due. 
He has managed with ability and 
success many important cases that 
have come before the New York 
courts, notably that of General 
Adam Badeau against the executors 
of General Grant's estate for serv- 
ices in writing the "Grant Me- 
moirs." He was counsel for Gen- 
eral Sickles while the latter was 
Sheriff of New York County, and is 
his attorney at the present time. 



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Mr. Hays argued the case for Gen- 
eral Sickles against Ashbel Green 
and others trustees of a railroad 
mortgage, in the United States Su- 
preme Court. He also argued be- 
fore the Court of Appeals and won 
the case of the people against Wil- 
merding, involving the right of the 
State to tax goods sold at auction, 
arguing against the constitution- 
ality of the law. In politics Mr. 
Hays has always been more or less 
interested, as a Democrat. He was 
a delegate to the State Convention, 
from Rockland County, which nom- 
inated David B. Hill for Governor. 
He purchased the "Nyack City and 
Country," published in Nyack, N. 
Y., with a view of changing its po- 
litical complexion and giving its 
support to Grover Cleveland. The 
paper is still a flourishing Demo- 
cratic organ. In November, 1893, 
Mr. Hays was appointed a commis- 
sioner of appraisal to award dam- 
ages caused by changes of grade 
necessary for the depression of 
tracks of the New York Central and 
Harlem Railroad, in the Twenty- 
third and Twenty-fourth Wards of 
New York city. In the same year 
he was appointed by Mayor Gilroy 
as a Civil Service Commissioner of 
the city of New York and was 
chosen chairman of that body. In 
his home village Mr. Hays has al- 
ways been identified with the best 
interests of the place, and has con- 
tributed liberally to its progress. 
He was a firm advocate for village 
incorporation and did much to se- 
cure the success of the movement. 
In appreciation of his services in 
their behalf, his fellow-citizens 
elected him Village President, in 
March, 1898. Mr. Hays is a mem- 
ber of the Lawyers', the Reform, 
the Manhattan, the Democratic and 
other clubs. He was for several 
terms president of the Harlem 
Democratic Club. He was married 
on April 10, 1880, to Miss Rachel 
Hershfleld, daughter of Aaron and 
Betsy R. Hirshfield, of New York 
city. They have five daughters. 



EDWARD T. LOVATT. 

Edward Trafford Lovatt, a former 
President of the village of North 
Tarrytown, was born in Newark, 



N. J., on May 22, 1850, a son of 
John and Mary A. Lovatt. He was 
the eldest of six children. He was 
educated in the public schools of 
his native city, graduating from the 
High School when but fifteen years 
of age. His parents removed to 
Tarrytown in 1866, where his father 
established silk mills. He worked 
in his father's mills until he suc- 
ceeded in mastering the trade. To 
satisfy an ambition to become a 
lawyer he devoted all his leisure 
hours to study. As his means 
would not permit of his going to 
college, he decided upon doing what 
he considered the next best thing, 
to avail himself of what means of 
learning he had at hand. He passed 
a creditable examination for ad- 
mission to the bar and was admit- 
ted to practice in 1878. His energy 
and ability soon gave him a prom- 
inent place among Westchester 
County lawyers and brought him 
clients from outside the county 
also. His practice was in both the 
criminal and civil courts. As the 
attorney and counsel for O'Brien & 
Clark and for Brown, Howard & 
Co., contractors, for the construc- 
tion of the greater part of the new 
Croton Aqueduct, he became well 
and favorably known. He was also 
counsel for the Pocantico Water 
Works Company and was one of the 
counsel for heirs in the famous 
John Anderson will case. In poli- 
tics Mr. Lovatt has always been as- 
sociated with the Republican party. 
He is a familiar figure at conven- 
tions and other assemblies of his 
party, and is often called upon to 
display his ability as a ready and 
witty speaker in political cam- 
paigns. In 1883 he was elected 
president of his village, receiving a 
handsome majority. In the fall of 
the same year he was his party's 
nominee for County District Attor- 
ney. He, with his associates on the 
ticket, suffered defeat. He has 
served as a member of the Repub- 
lican County Committee and of 
local committees and recognized as 
a party leader. He was for years 
president of the local Board of Ed- 
ucation and filled the office of Cor- 
poration Counsel. He was one of 
the incorporators of St. Paul's 
Methodist Episcopal Church and 
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years he was superintendent of the 
Sunday-school of that church. He 
has represented the church at 
Methodist conferences. Mr. Lovatt 
was married on May 22, 1871, to 
Miss Sarah Theodosia Tompliins, a 
grand niece of the Hon. Daniel D. 
Tompkins, formerly Governor of 
New York and Vice-President of 
the United States; of the union 
there are two children — John. E. 
and Sarah T. Lovatt. 



MOSES W. TAYLOR. 

Moses W. Taylor, Supervisor, 
was born in the town of Scarsdale 
on August 9, 1839, a son of Andrew 
and Catherine (Williams) Taylor. 
He was educated in private and 
public schools of Yonkers. When 
19 years of age, in 1858, he became 
a resident in the town of Mount 
Pleasant, where he now resides. He 
followed the occupation of his fa- 
ther and is a practical farmer. For 
twenty years he was extensively 
engaged in the pickle business. As 
a man of affairs he is favorably 
known. He has served the town of , 
Mount Pleasant for nineteen years | 



as Supervisor, Commissioner of 
Highways for four years, and held 
other positions in his town. He is 
a Democrat, active and prominent. 
He has represented his town in the 
Democratic County Committee, is a 
regular attendant at all conven- 
tions of his party and with great 
regularity is elected a delegate to 
the State Convention. He served 
for three years as postmaster at 
Neperan, recently resigning the po- 
sition. For six years he acted as 
an appraiser for New York city in 
the matter of acquiring land for the 
: ,, iuef;.iit:d. He has been 
for fifteen years a trustee of the 
Westchester Savings Bank, has 
been a director of the Tarrytown 
National Bank since its organiza- 
tion, is a director of the White 
Plains Bank, is vice-president of 
the Westchester County Agricul- 
tural and Horticultural Society, and 
a member of the New York Society 
Sons of the Revolution; and has for 
twenty years been a member of 
Solomon Lodge, No. 196, F. and A. 
M. Mr. Taylor was married Oc- 
tober 7, 1863, to Miss Jane Gibson, 
daughter of James and Jane Gib- 
son, of Mount Pleasant. 



CITY AND TOWN OF MOUNT VERNON. 



Mount Vernon, formerly a part of the town of Eastchester, was 
incorporated as a \dllage in 1853. Proceedings, under the gen- 
eral act for incorporation of villages, were commenced August 26, 
and completed December 13, of that year. A census taken at the 
time showed the population of the proposed new village to be 1,370, 
The organizers of the village were members of "The Home Indus- 
trial Association, No. 1, of New York City," who had, in 1850, 
bought property in the locality and had worked energetically to de- 
velop and improve their small possessions. The association was 
principally composed of mechanics and laboring men, who had 
combined for the purpose of securing homes near New York city 
where they were employed. The association was organized in New 
York city. On October 16, 1850, the members decided to purchase 
three hundred and seventy-five acres of land in the town of East- 
chester, land which was subsequently included within the limits of 
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216 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



were nominated for the position of purchasing agent. The latter was 
chosen; the first check in payment for the land, $3,400, was dated 
November 1, 1850. Several names were proposed for the new settle- 
ment, viz.: Columbia, Feetwood, Eising Sun, Stevensville, Jeffer- 
son, Thousandville, Palestine, New Washington, Monticello, Wash- 
ington, Lafayette, Little New York, Linden, Olive Branch, New 
Amsterdam, Enterprise, Homesville, Industria, Youngfield and In- 
dustry, On November 1, 1850, the name Monticello was adopted. 
This was shortly afterwards changed to Monticello City. On No- 
vember 12, 1850, members visited the lands purchased and on that 
occasion Horace Greeley delivered an address complimenting them 
upon the step they had taken and commending the wisdom displayed 
in choosing the site for the proposed settlement. On January 10, 
1851, the name of the locality was changed to Mount Vernon, the 
change being necessary to avoid postal difficulties. The election to 
decide for or against incorporation was held December 3, 1853, the 
polling place being in a store on the corner of Third Avenue and 
Third Street. The vote was eighty-two in favor of the proposition 
to fifty-two against. The first election for village officers was held 
March 7, 1854, when the following named persons were elected 
Trustees for the term of one year, viz.: Stephen Bogart, John B. 
Brennan, Joseph S. Gregory, M. D., Thomas Jones and William Sax- 
ton. The Board of Trustees elected Joseph S. Gregory, M. D., Pres- 
ident of the \dllage; Dr. Gregory resigned the office in July, of the 
same year, and Thomas Jones was appointed to succeed him. The 
Presidents appointed by Boards of Village Trustees were as follows: 
Cornelius A. Cooper, 1855; Richard Atkinson, 1856-57-60-62; Geo. 
L. Baxter, 1858; John B. Brennan, 1859; John Stevens, 1861; David 
Quackinbush, 1863. Presidents were elected by the people for a 
term of one year, commencing 1863, as follows: David Quackin- 
bush, 1863-64; Wilham H. Pemberton, 1865-66-67-68; Edward Mar- 
tin, 1869. An amendment to the village charter passed in 1870 
made the Presidential term two years. Under this amended charter 
the following were elected: Edward Martin, 1870-72; Azro Fowler, 
1874; George R. Crawford, 1876; David Quackinbush, 1878-88; 
Henry Huss, 1880; John Van Santvoord, 1882; William J. Colhns, 
1884; Jared Sandford, 1886, 1890. 

West Mount Vernon and Central Mount Vernon were incorpo- 
rated as one village in the year 1869, and continued as such for nine 
years, until 1878, when its electors voted in favor of consolidation 
with the village of Mount Vernon. Christian Rost was the first 
President of the village, and he was succeeded by the following 




GEORGE R. CRAWFORD. 




EDWIN W. FISKE. 




ADAM E. SCHATZ. 




JOHN H. BRETT. 




CLARENCE S. McCLELLAN. 




DAVID O. WILLIAMS 




ROBERT W. MACGOWAN. 



4t 











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WILLIAM H. VAN ARSDALE. 



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named gentlemen, in the order given: Joseph Bellesheim, Horace 
Loomis and John Van Santvoord. The Village Clerks were Isaac 
A. Farrington, John Zillig and H. C. Bissell. 

Mount Vernon, by a special act of the State Legislature, was 
granted a city charter on March 12, 1892, and divided into five 
wards. At the first election held under this charter, in May, 1892, 
Edward F. Brush, M. D., Republican, was elected Mayor; he was suc- 
ceeded by Edson Lewis, Eepublican, elected in May, 1894; Edwin W. 
Fiske, Democrat, was elected Mayor in 1896, and re-elected in 1898. 
Mount Vernon is known as "The City of Homes." It has finely laid 
out and well-paved and macadamized streets; its sewerage system is 
the most complete; its public schools are of high grade and churches 
of all denominations are numerous. The Fire Department of this 
city is supplied with the most modern of apparatus, drawn by horses, 
and though a volimteer department it equals in efficiency any, paid 
or volunteer, in the State. 

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the 
Harlem Branch of the New York Central Railroad have stations 
with the city limits, and, being situated Mdthin a half hour's 
ride of New York city, it is a favorite residence for people doing 
business in the latter place. Cars of the Union Electric Railway run 
between Mount Vernon and New York city, to corner .of Third Ave- 
nue and 129th Street, in latter city, and between Mount Vernon and 
Yonkers, connecting in the latter city with the New York Central 
and Hudson River Railroad. 

Mount Vernon's population in 1880 was 4,586; in 1890 the pop- 
ulation had more than doubled, and, according to the census enu- 
meration of that year, was 10,830. The present population is esti- 
mated at 23,000. The following are the acting city officers: Edwin 
W. Fiske, Mayor. Aldermen — James Dollard and William A. 
Roedel, First Ward; J. A. Cline and Edward T. Hayward, Second 
Ward; William D. Howe and J. George Hermes, Third Ward; Wil- 
liam D Grant and Erland Anderberg, Fourth Ward; Adolph W. Wal- 
lander and James D. Connor, Fifth Ward. William N. Hoyt, City 
Clerk; John H. Brett, Receiver of Taxes; Henry B. Pruser, City 
Treasurer; John O'Toole, Comptroller; Adam E. Schatz, City Judge; 
William J. Marshall, City Attorney; Harry P. McTague, Commis- 
sioner of Public Works; Francis C. Mclntyre, Commissioner of 
Charities; James K. Fuller, President Board of Police; Jeremiah 
Foley, Chief of Police; Joseph S. Wood, President Board of Educa- 
tion; Charles E. Nichols, Superintendent of Schools; David Far- 
rington. President Board of Fire Commissioners; Charles H. Heir- 



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eolin, Chief Engineer Fire Department; J. H. Cordes, President 
Board of AssesBors; G. W. Vincent, M. D., President Board of 
Health; Edward F. Bayer, President Civil Service Commissioners; 
James H. Perry, Inspector of Buildings. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



EDWIN W. FISKE. 

I 
Edwin W. Fiske, Mayor of the | 
city of Mount Vernon, was born in \ 
Shamokin, Pa., on July 17, 1861, a | 
son of Samuel and Amanda (Stod- 
dart) Fiske, a descendant of revo- 
lutionary ancestry. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Har- 
risburg, Pa. When eighteen years 
of age he was apprenticed to learn 
the Bessemer Steel Manufacturing ' 
business, being employed until he i 
had mastered the trade by the j 
Pennsylvania Steel Company, in \ 
Steelton, Pa. For the past fourteen ! 
years he has been engaged in the | 
steam and hot-water heating busi- 
ness, in New York city, Yonkers , 
and Mount Vernon. He came to | 
Mount Vernon to reside eleven 
j'ears ago. His genial ways and [ 
good-natured disposition soon made j 
him a leader among the young men | 
and In a remarkably short time he 
was forced into a prominent posi- | 
tion in public affairs. In 1889 he j 
was elected a Trustee of the village 
of Mount Vernon to represent the 
Second Ward. His removal from 
the ward in 1890 required him to 
relinquish this oflBce. He was ! 
chosen several times as chairman 
of the Republican General Commit- 
tee of Mount Vernon and was, in 
1890, nominated by that party for 
President of the village; though de- [ 
feated he made a creditable run. I 
In 1891 he took Issue with the Re- | 
publican party on certain public \ 
questions and decided to unite with | 
the Democratic party as the party 
best representing his political 1 
views. As the Democratic candl- i 
date he was elected, over a specially | 
strong opponent, as an Alderman i 
of the Second Ward in 1893. In \ 
1894 he was unanimously nomi- i 
nated by the Democrats for Mayor, ' 
and so close was the election that i 



the courts had to be called upon to 
decide. After several months' de- 
lay the courts rendered a decision 
to the effect that Mr. Fiske was de- 
feated by one vote. Mr. Fiske re- 
mained as Alderman and was elect- 
ed president of the Common Coun- 
cil and Acting Mayor. In 1898 he 
was again the Democratic candi- 
date for Mayor, and was elected by 
a majority of 505. His administra- 
tion as Mayor was a most success- 
ful one, and to him is greatly due 
the credit and praise the city of 
Mount Vernon is now receiving on 
account of its handsome streets and 
avenues. In the discharge of his 
oCacial duties Mayor Fiske is an in- 
defatigable worker; to accomplish 
what he does his friends assert that 
he is always on the alert, scarcely 
sleeping. In 1898 he was again the 
Democratic candidate for Mayor 
and elected by a majority even 
greater than the former. 

He was among the organizers of 
Steamer Company, No. 3, of the 
Mount Vernon Fire Department, 
and subsequently became its fore- 
man, in which position he contin- 
ued until he was elected chief en- 
gineer of the Fire Department in 
1893, which latter position he held 
until 1896. What he did for the 
Fire Department is a matter of his- 
tory, sufficient it is to state that the 
Mount Vernon Fire Department is 
one of the best equipped in the 
State. Mayor Fiske is a member 
of the Firemen's Exempt Associa- 
tion, has been president and treas- 
urer of the Firemen's Benevolent 
Association, and vice-president and 
a member of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the International Associa- 
tion of Fire Engineers of the World. 
He is prominent in Masonic circles, 
is a member of Hiawatha Lodge, F. 
and A. M.; Mount Vernon Chapter, 
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219 



0. D. O.'s, and of Mecca Shrine of 
New York city; is a member of the 
Order of B. P. 0. Elks Lodge No. 1, 
of New York city; a member of 
Golden Rod Council, Royal Arca- 
num; a member of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, New York 
State; a member of Aque-a-Nonck 
Tribe, 369, I. O. Red Men, and of 
the Old Guard Colonial Wars, Chi- 
cago; a member of the Mount Ver- 
non Cycle Club and Westchester 
County Wheelmen; a sustaining 
member of the Y. M. C. A.; a mem- 
ber of the City Club, of Yonkers, 
and of the City Club, of Mount Ver- 
non; a member of the Democratic 
Club and Tammany Society, of New 
York city; a member of Mount Ver- 
non Turn-Verein; a member of the 
Sons of Veterans, Chas. J. Nord- 
quist Camp, 64, of Mount Vernon; 
a member of Vernon Conclave, 510, 

1. 0. H.; a member of the American 
Spaniel Club and of the American 
Kennel Club, of New York city. 
Mayor Fiske was married June 7, 
1892, to Miss Annie E. Smith, 
daughter of Henry C. and Annie 
Smith, of Mount Vernon. 



daughter of Mathew and Margaret 
Bennett, of Brooklyn. 



ADAM E SCHATZ. 

Adam E. Schatz, Democrat, City 
Judge of the city of Mount Vernou, 
was born on November 10, 1848, in 
the city of New York, a son of Ja- 
cob and Susanah (Schmitt) Schatz. 
Was educated in the schools of his 
native city, graduating from Co- 
lumbia College, after which he was 
admitted to the bar and succeeded 
In building up a flourishing law 
business. Though his practice is 
general, he has secured much prom- 
inence by repeated successes gained 
as an attorney in important patent 
suits. As an inventor he also ranks 
high. His election as City Judge of 
Mount Vernon occurred on June 15, 
1896, for a term of four years. He 
is the second person who has held 
the office since the citj'^'s incorpora- 
tion. Though an active Democrat, 
Judge Schatz does not claim to be a 
politician, preferring to be consid- 
ered as one wedded to his profes- 
sion, and as a caretaker of a large 
legal practice. Judge Schatz was 
married on December 15, 1887, to 
Miss Anna Jeannette Bennett, 



JOHN H. BRETT. 

John H. Brett, Receiver of Taxes 
of the city of Mount Vernon, was 
born in Mount Vernon on August 4, 
1854, a son of James and Ann (Har- 
rington) Brett. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native 
town and soon after, at an early 
age, entered upon a mercantile ca- 
reer. By industrious habits and a 
close application to business he 
gained the respect of all with whom 
he came in contact. For many 
years he acted as manager for the 
late Andrew J. Gardner, an exten- 
sive dealer in flour and feed in 
Mount Vernon. On the death of 
Mr. Gardner Mr. Brett engaged in 
a similar business on his own ac- 
count, which he still conducts. 
Though an active Democrat, inter- 
ested in the advancement of the in- 
terests of his party, Mr. Brett could 
never be prevailed upon to accept 
public office until 1889; then it was 
that his special business abilities 
suggested him as a proper person to 
select for the responsible office of 
Receiver of Taxes. He received the 
nomination for that office from his 
party and he was elected over a 
popular opponent by a decisive ma- 
jority. He has been re-elected con- 
tinuously up to the present time, 
his majority increasing with the 
years, and usually his majority has 
been much greater than his asso- 
ciates' on the ticket. Mr. Brett is 
also very much interested in social 
matters; is a member of San Sal- 
vador Council, No. 174, K. of C; a 
member of C. B. L., No. 321, of 
Mount Vernon; a member of Court 
Star, No. 228, F. of A.; a sustaining 
member of the Y. M. C. A.; a mem- 
ber of Mount Vernon Encampment, 
No. 58, K. of St. J. and M.; a mem- 
ber of the St. Vincent De Paul So- 
ciety; a member of the Mount Ver- 
non Turn-Verein; a member of the 
Mount Vernon Quartette Club, also 
member of City Club. Has been a 
member of the local Fire Depart- 
ment since 1890, is yet ?n active 
member of Niagara Hose Company 
and a member of the Firemen's Ex- 
empt Association. Mr. Brett was 



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married November 23, 1884, to Miss 
Margaret Delaney, daughter of 
Kearnan and Abby Delaney, of 
Fordham, N. Y. 



DAVID O. WILLIAMS. 

David O. Williams, postmaster of 
the city of Mount Vernon, was born 
in New York city on May 5, 1860, 
a son of John B. and Martha (Wil- 
liams) Williams. Twelve years 
later, in 1872, he removed with his 
parents to Mount Vernon, where 
he has since continuously resided. 
In 1875 he graduated from what was 
then the high school of Mount Ver- 
non, and, in June, 1876, began the 
study of law, entering for that pur- 
pose the law office of Joseph S. 
Wood. In October, 1876, Mr. Wood 
formed a partnership with Isaac N. 
Mills, who a few years afterwards 
•was elected County Judge of West- 
chester County, under the firm 
name of Mills & Wood. Mr. Wil- 
liams continued with this law firm 
until its dissolution, in May, 1882, 
when he formed a new alliance 
with Mr. Mills and has ever since 
been associated with the latter. He 
was admitted to practice February 
15, 1884, passing number one out of 
a class of fifty or more, with a per- 
centage of 98. He has won the uni- 
versal esteem of all with whom his 
calling has brought him in contact, 
for the faithful and conscientious 
manner in which he has conducted 
the many affairs that have been en- 
trusted to him. In June, 1893, he 
entered public life, having been 
chosen by the Common Council of 
his city as an Alderman to repre- 
sent the Third Ward, to fill a va- 
cancy caused by the resignation of 
a member from that ward, and on 
the reorganization of the Council 
two weeks thereafter he was elected 
president of that body, and during 
his term of office did much effica- 
cious work. He was chairman of 
the Committee on Water and Sew- 
ers and In that position displayed 
considerable ability. He was also 
made chairman by the Mayor of a 



Special Committee of Aldermen to 
effect a consolidation into one dis- 
trict of the several school districts 
which then laid wholly or partly 
In the city, which consolidation 
was, through legislative enactment, 
brought about, and has proved a 
great benefit in the administration 
of the educational affairs of the 
city. When, upon the expiration 
of his term as Alderman, he was 
tendered a nomination for re-elec- 
tion, he declined, although the 
nomination was equivalent to an 
election. The Republican party, of 
which Mr. Williams has always 
been an active member and worker, 
nominated him in the spring of 1896 
for City Judge, and though he was 
defeated in what proved to be a 
Democratic tidal wave, he ran way 
ahead of his associates on the 
ticket, being defeated by a majority 
of only 180, when the candidate for 
Mayor and others on the same 
ticket were defeated by majorities 
of over 500 and 600. Mr. Williams 
Is a member of the New York State 
and Westchester County Bar Asso- 
ciations and of the Westchester 
Historical Association. He is a di- 
rector of the local Home Building 
Association and also a director and 
one of the largest stockholders in 
the Mount Vernon Republican As- 
sociation, the corporation which 
controls Lincoln Hall. He repre- 
sented Mount Vernon in the Re- 
publican County Committee several 
years and has acted as secretary of 
that committee. In January last 
he was elected chairman of the Re- 
publican City Committee, after the 
most exciting contest for that posi- 
tion ever held in that city. He has 
long been active in the ranks of the 
Republican party and his work has 
been telling and effective, but al- 
ways accomplished unassumingly. 
Personally his character has been 
most exemplary, and the record of 
his life is one above reproach. He 
wag married March 7, 1895, to Miss 
Kathryn A. Williams, of Redding, 
Conn. In June last Mr. Williams 
was nominated by President Mc- 
Kinley as postmaster at Mount Ver- 
non; his nomination was imme- 
diately confirmed by the United 
States Senate and he entered upon 
the discharge of his duties as such 
on the first of August following. 



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GEORGE R. CRAWFORD. 

George R. Crawford, a former 
Village Trustee, a former Village 
President, the first Chief Engineer 
of the Fire Department, a member 
of the Board of Education of Mount 
Vernon, was born in White Plains, 
this county, on June 21, 1841, a son 
of Elisha and Judith (Tompkins) 
Crawford. He was educated in the 
White Plains Military Institute. At 
an early age he engaged in the fire 
Insurance business, and in time be- 
came one of the most efficient in 
that line. At the age of fifteen he 
became connected with the West- 
chester Fire Insurance Company, 
established in 1837, and in that 
company has filled offices of the 
several grades until he reached the 
presidency, the position which he 
now holds; to his administration is 
greatly due the prominence and 
prosperity which the company now 
enjoys. Mr. Crawford became a 
resident of Mount Vernon thirty 
years ago, and since that date he 
has been closely identified with the 
history of the place; to his energy 
and perseverance, exhibited in pub- 
lic affairs. Mount Vernon owes 
much. He was a leading spirit in 
the organization of the local fire 
department, and in recognition of 
his services in this respect he was 
elected the first Chief Engineer of 
that department. He was elected 
a Village Trustee in 1870, and 
again in 1873. He was elected Vil- 
lage President in 1876, and served 
two years. Mr. Crawford is an old- 
line Jeffersonian — the greatest 
good of the greatest number — Dem- 
ocrat; at the present time he styles 
himself an "Anti - Repudiation 
Democrat." He has taken an ac- 
tive part in State as well as local 
politics. In 1892 he was at the 
head of the "Anti-Snap Demo- 
crats" in this county. He was one 
of the prime movers in the organ- 
ization of the Democratic Club of 
Mount Vernon, and was elected its 
first president. In 1896 he refused 
to follow his party in the support 
of Bryan and silver; he was chosen 
chairman of the Twenty-second 
Congressional District Committee 
of "Gold Democrats," who support- 
ed John M. Palmer for President. 
Mr. Crawford holds a prominent 
position in the Masonic order, hav- 



ing filled many important offices; 
he is a member of Hiawatha Lodge, 
No. 434, F. and A. M.; is a mem- 
ber of Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 
228, R. A. M.; a member of Bethle- 
hem Commandery, K. T., No. 53; 
is a member of all the branches of 
Scottish Rites, and a member of 
the Mecca Temple. He was mar- 
ried on May 25, 1864, to Miss Lu- 
cretia Greig, daughter of James 
and Rebecca Grieg, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 



ROBERT W. MACGOWAN. 
Robert W. Macgowan, a former 
Alderman of the city of Mount Ver- 
non, was born in Ulster County 
about sixty-five years ago. He 
comes of good old American stock, 
his grandfather, Nathaniel Lock- 
wood, having served in the Conti- 
nental Army from Connecticut dur- 
ing the revolutionary war. His fa- 
ther, James W. Macgowan, carried 
on the business of hand weaving in 
Westchester County, a very import- 
ant business at that time, before 
the days of machinery. Mr. Mac- 
gowan has been a citizen of Mount 
Vernon for many years, and has 
rendered much good service to the 
community. He has always been a 
conscientious, hard-working repre- 
sentative of the people. He was 
first elected Village Trustee in 1890 
as a Democrat, in a ward considered 
strongly Republican; was placed on 
the most important committees and 
gave details that care which as- 
sured the safe outcome of import- 
ant issues. In two years he never 
absented himself from a single 
meeting, was a ready and intelli- 
gent debater of all questions, and 
most diligent on committee work. 
His faithful service insured his re- 
election by an increased majority. 
He secured much substantial legis- 
lation for his ward and posterity 
owes a debt of gratitude to his 
faithful discharge of duties placed 
upon him. Mr. Macgowan is an ac- 
tive fireman and has for several 
years served as president of Steamer 
Company No. 3. He has been a vol- 
unteer fireman for forty-eight years 
and never shirked when there was 
brave work to be done. 



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CLARENCE S. McCLELLAN. 

Clarence Stewart McClellan, a 
former Village Trustee, a former 
City Treasurer and recent Post- 
master, was born in Mount Ver- 
non, on May 6, 1860, a son of Pel- 
ham L. and Sarah A. (Ferdon) 
McClellan. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native vil- 
lage. On graduating from school 
he served for a time as clerk in 
the law office of his father, but 
shortly after decided upon engag- 
ing in the business of a real estate 
and insurance broker. His energy 
and perseverence displayed in his 
new vocation, in connection with 
ready intelligence and reliable 
judgment, soon earned for him a 
place among the most foremost and 
most successful in that branch of 
business. To-day he is considered 
one of the best informed as to 
values of real estate in the city of 
Mount Vernon; he has been and is 
at present a member of several 
commissions appointed by courts 
to determine value of land in dif- 
ferent sections of the county; has 
also acted as executor or adminis- 
trator of large estates, disposing of 
large quantities of real and per- 
sonal properties. He carried on 
alone for many years the real es- 
tate and insurance business, but 
the growth of the business became 
so great that he found it necessary 
to have a partner, and in 1891 he 
became associated with Thomas R. 
Hodge, the present County Register 
of Deeds, the firm name being Mc- 
Clellan & Hodge, which continues 
at this time. Mr. McClellan has for 
many years been closely identified 
with the best interests of Mount 
Vernon, and in appreciation of his 
sterling worth his neighbors have 
signified their preferment by elect- 
ing him to office. He was treas- 
urer of School District No. 4, town 
of Eastchester, in 1888-89-90: was 
elected a Village Trustee, repre- 
senting the Second Ward, in 1890; 
was elected the first Treasurer of 
the City of Mount Vernon, on June 
15, 1892, and served until June 15, 
1894. In 1894 he was the unani- 
mous choice of his party for Post- 
master of Mount Vernon, and re- 
ceived the appointment to that 
position from President Cleveland; 
the large bond required from occu- 
pants of the office was furnished by 



Mr. McClellan within twenty-four 
hours from the time he received 
the necessary papers from Wash- 
ington; he vacated the office on 
August 1, 1898, on the qualification 
of his successor, David O. Wil- 
liams. In politics Mr. McClellan 
has always been a Democrat. He 
was one of the organizers of the 
People's Bank of Mount Vernon, 
and became one of its directors, 
and subsequently was elected its 
vice-president; in January, 1898, 
he succeeded Horace Loomis as its 
president, which position he now 
holds. He is vice-president of the 
Eastchester Electric Light Com- 
pany, of Mount Vernon, and one 
of the directors of the Tarrytown, 
White Plains and Mamaroneck 
Railway Company. Mr. McClellan 
was married on February 14, 1886, 
to Miss Sarah C. Collins, daughter 
of William J. Collins, of Mount 
Vernon. 



WILLIAM H. VAN ARSDALE. 

William H. Van Arsdale, a former 
chief of the Fire Department, Vil- 
lage Trustee and Justice of the 
Peace of Mount Vernon, was born 
In New York city on May 19, 1837, 
a son of Simon and Elizabeth 
(Ford) Van Arsdale, and is a de- 
scendant of one of the old Knick- 
erbocker families of his native city. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of New York and subse- 
quently learned the trade of a car- 
penter. He became a resident of 
Mount Vernon in 1863, when that 
place was but a mere hamlet, and 
assisted greatly in its development. 
In 1878 he embarked in the livery 
and undertaking business, which he 
still continues. He has for years 
taken an active part in public af- 
fairs. In New York city he was a 
member of the Fire Department, 
belonging to what was known as 
the "Big Six" Engine Company. In 
Mount Vernon he was one of the 
organizers of the local Fire Depart- 
ment, serving for two years as as- 
sistant foreman, and for three years 
as foreman of Clinton Hook and 
Ladder Company; subsequently he 
served two years as chief of the De- 
partment. He was elected a Trus- 
tee of the village of Mount Vernon 
and served two years, also was 
elected a Justice of the Peace for a 
term of four years. 



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THE TOWN OF NEW CASTLE. 



The town of New Castle was formed March 18, 1891. Prior 
to this date it was a part of the town of North Castle. The town 
is situated about thirty-five miles from New York City, and is on 
the line of the Harlem Eailroad. On its northern boundary line lies 
the towns of Cortlandt, Yorktown and Somers, on the east is the 
town of Bedford, on the south the town of North Castle and on the 
west the towns of Ossining and Mount Pleasant. The town was 
called by the Indians Shappequa or Chappequa; this latter name is 
still applied to a thriving locality in the southern section of the 
town. The name New Castle is believed to have been given on ac- 
count of an Indian palisaded fort or castle that stood in the vicinity. 
John Richbell, who purchased in 1661, from the Indians, the land 
on which Mamaroneck was formed, in 1666 concluded another pur- 
chase of a large tract of land extending twenty miles north of the 
Sound. This land included the whole of what is now the New Castle 
township. 

During the American Revolution the town was the scene of 
many conflicts between contending forces, and the defenceless in- 
habitants suffered much from depredations of the enemy. 

Within the limits of the town lies partly the village of Mount 
Kisco and the localities known as Chappaqua (on the Harlem Rail- 
road) and Millwood. 

A fair average valuation of land, principally farm land, in the 
town is fifty dollars per acre. The assessed valuation of real estate 
in the town is $1,427,380; personal, $474,987, as fixed by Assessors 
of 1897. The town tax rate this year is $4.7544 per $1,000 of as- 
sessed valuation inside of village of Mount Kisco; $7.5456 per $1,000 
assessed valuation outside village of Mount Kisco. The rate last 
year was $7.30 per $1,000 inside village; $12,316 outside village. 

The population of the town has been, according to various cen- 
sus enumerations, as follows: In 1830, 1,336; in 1835, 1,406; in 
1840, 1,529; in 1845, 1,495; in 1850, 1,800; in 1855, 1,702; in 1860, 
1,817; in 1865, 1,870; in 1870, 2,152; in 1875, 2,242; in 1880, 2,297; 
in 1890, 2,110. 

The present town officers as follows: Joseph 0. Miller, Mount 
Kisco, Supervisor; Orrin P. Barnes, Chappaqua, Town Clerk; Hugh 
Douglas, Edgar Lounsberr>% Samuel T. Clark and Walter H. Haight, 
Justices of the Peace; David C. Kipp, Sing Sing, Collector of Taxes. 

Property sold for unpaid taxes is usually purchased by private 
individuals. Back taxes are payable to the Supervisor. 



224 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

The village of Mount Kisco was incorporated in 1875, and ac- 
cording to a census taken in January, 1898, has a population of 
1,374. Its population in 1880 was 728; in 1890 it was 1,095. The 
village is a station on the Harlem Eailroad. The present village 
officers are as follows: Elbert T. Bailey, President; Edwin B. Fish, 
Stephen Sarles, George H. Knapp and Townsend Matthews, Trus- 
tees; Walter B. Osborne, Clerk; Frederick J. Carpenter, Collector of 
Taxes. The village lies in two towns — New Castle and Bedford — 
and is the only village in either town. 

The unincorporated village of Chappaqua had a population in 
1880 of 330; in 1890 the population had increased to more than 
double, to 733. 



TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 



The present township of New Rochelle was formed March 7, 
1788. It is delightfully situated on Long Island Sound, which 
bounds it on the south; on the east lie the towns of Scarsdale and 
Mamaroneck; on the north the town of Scarsdale, and on the west 
are the Hutchinson's Eiver and the town of Pelham, New Eochelle 
is a station on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 
on the main hne and on the Harlem Branch of that road, sixteen 
miles from the Grand Central Station, New York city. During the 
summer months steamboats connect Glen Island with New York 
city and carry passengers to and from the town. The township for- 
merly belonged to the Manor of Pelham. The land was included in 
the grant executed by the Indians, in 1640, to the Dutch West India 
Company, but no attempt was made to settle upon it until after 
1654, when Thomas Pell became the owner of it and the adjacent 
land of Pelham. John Pell, lord of the Manor of Pelham, a nephew 
of Thomas Pell, sold to Jacob Leisler, of the city of New York, on 
September 20, 1689, six thousand and one hundred acres of land 
within the Manor of Pelham at a price which would now be equal 
to one dollar and forty cents per acre, land upon which the present 
town of New Rochelle was subsequently erected. It is believed that 
in this portion of the manor a settlement had been commenced some 
years previous by a few French Huguenots, who had come up from 
New York city. The Huguenots, or French Protestants of New 
Rochelle, were a part of a great number who fled from France to 
escape persecution on accoimt of their religious views. The town 
derives its name from La RocheUe, capital of the department of 
Lower Chaiente in France, a place dear to the hearts of the oppressed 





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MICHAEL J. DILLON. 




JAMES ROSS. 




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owing to its having been to them for a time a city of refuge, and 
from which they were eventually compelled to fly. The main body 
of the Huguenots fled from France in 1681 and between that year 
and 1686 many of them came to New Eochelle. They landed at 
Bonnefoi Point, now known as Hudson Park, in this township. To 
mark the spot where the Huguenots first planted a foot upon the 
town's friendly soil, a monument of stone was erected in Hudson 
Park, on April 27, 1898, by Huguenot descendants residing in the 
town, acting with members of the Westchester County Historical 
Society. 

A list of the early Supervisors of the town will be found under 
a separate head in this volume. 

During the American Eevolution the town was the scene of 
much activity among the contending forces. 

I Eeports to the contrary notwithstanding, there was a time 

within the town's history when a public office went begging. In 
1764 Abel DeA'-eaux, who was elected Tax Collector, refused to 
qualify; Abraham Seacord was appointed by the court to fill the va- 
cancy, but he took himself outside the jurisdiction of the court be- 
cause he did not want to serve. Other attempts to fill the office fail- 
l ing, Peter Badeau, inspired by good citizenship, agreed to accept the 
' trust. 

The first public school houses in this town were erected in 1795, 
three in number. The first school election held in the town took 
place December 7, 1812. In 1857 what is now the principal school 
building, on Trinity Place, was completed. The act authorizing the 
establishment of a free school in District No. 1, New Eochelle, was 
passed by the Legislature March 20, 1857. Within the last two 
years three new large brick school buildings have been erected in 
District No. 1, necessary to meet increasing demands. 

What is now Huguenot Street was originally known as High 
Street, in Queen Ann's Charter. 

^he first Town Hall was erected on the corner of Main and 
Mechanic Streets, in 1828, with money left to the town in the will of 
William Henderson — $1,550. The present Town Hall, on the same 
site, was huilt in the year 1870, the Legislature authorizing the 
town to raise the necessary funds. 

Josiah L. Count was authorized by act of the State Legislature, 
passed April 16, 1830, to erect and maintain a dock adjacent to his 
land, lying on New Eochelle Creek. 

The County Board of Supervisors, on November 20, 1854, 
granted authority to locate a cemetery in New Eochelle, to be known 
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The New Eochelle Fire Department, now one of the most efficient 
in the county, fully equipped with the most modem, improved ap- 
paratus, was established March 29, 1861. 

As mentioned elsewhere in this volume, the remains of Thomas 
Paine were buried in this town, and a monument erected to his 
memory stands on North Street. 

David's Island, situated in the harbor of New Eochelle, was 
ceded to the United States by an act of the Legislature passed April 
20, 1868, the same to be purchased by the United States for military 
purposes. 

Hart's Island, situated in Long Island Sound, was ceded to the 
United States by act of the Legislature, passed May 11, 1874, for 
lighthouse purposes. 

An act of the State Legislature, passed May 17, 1886, empow- 
ered the town of New Eochelle to acquire title to certain lands and 
water rights for the purpose of a public park and public improve- 
ment. Under this act Hudson Park became the property of the 
town, by purchase authorized by vote of the electors. 

The town's population, according to the several census enu- 
merations, has been as follows, in the years given: In 1830, 1,274; 
in 1835, 1,261; in 1840, 1,816; in 1845, 1,977; in 1850, 2,548; in 
1855, 3,101; in 1860, 3,519; in 1865, 3,968; in 1870, 3,915; in 1875, 
4,678; in 1880, 5,276; in 1890, 9,057. 

The assessed valuation of property in the township, as fixed by 
the Assessors of 1897, is as follows: Eeal, $14,471,620; personal, 
$1,097,023. The tax rate this year is $4,428 on each $1,000, of as- 
sessed valuation inside the village of New Eochelle; $6,273 per 
$1,000 outside the village of New Eochelle. 

The present officials of the town are as follows: Michael J. 
Dillon, Supervisor; Augustine Smith, Town Clerk; Samuel F. Swin- 
burne, Augustine Smith and M. B. Valentine, Justices of the Peace; 
John Koellmer, Eeceiver of Taxes. Post office address. New Eo- 
chelle, N. Y. 

The first meeting of the officers of the New Eochelle village 
government was held on January 21, 1858, when the Board of Trus- 
tees elected Albert Smith Village President. A new charter was 
granted to the village by act of the State Legislature on April 20, 
1864. The charter has been amended in many respects since the 
latter date. During the present year, 1898, the Legislature passed 
a bill granting to the town of New Eochelle a city charter; the act 
failed to become a law owing to Governor Black withholding his 
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227 



The population of the village was, in 1890, as shown by the 
census enumeration, 8,217; the recent census, taken in January, 
1898, places it at 12,297. 

The village is a locality noted for its residence parks, its well- 
laid-out streets, excellent system of sewerage, and all the permanent 
improvements that tend to make it as it is, an up-to-date village. 
The public water supply is controlled by a private corporation, and 
is a satisfactory one. The streets are illuminated by gas and elec- 
tricity. 

It has an extensive water front and public docks where vessels 
can land. Its bathing beaches prove attractive to residents in the 
surrounding country. Numerous yachting and rowing clubs have 
there club houses here, bordering upon Long Island Sound. Within 
the village limits is located Starin's Glen Island, in Neptune Bay, 
the famous pleasure resort. 

The present village officers are as follows: Henry S. Clarke, 
President; Matthaus Bantel, Daniel Brady, Thomas Burke, John 
Conlon, U. X. Griffin, John Koellmer, Frederick Lorenzen, WiHiam 
Murray, Herbert A. Quackenbush and John W. Rough, Trustees; 
Andrew J. Selz, Clerk; John Koellmer, Receiver of Taxes. 



BIOGEAPHICA.L SKETCHES. 



CHARLES G. BANKS. 

Charles G. Banks, a former Reg- 
ister of Deeds of Westchester 
County, and former Police Justice 
of New Rochelle, was born in the 
town of North Castle, on May 26, 
1847. At the age of seventeen he 
left the farm to make his way in 
the world, first as a cierk of the Le 
Roy Place Hotel, at New Rochelle. 
Hotel life was not his calling, and 
he commenced the study of law, 
graduating from the Law Depart- 
ment of the New York University 
in the class of '75, was admitted to 
the Bar the same year, and al- 
most immediately became the sen- 
ior member of the well-known law 
firm of Banks & Keogh (the latter 
now Justice Martin J. Keogh, of 
the Second Department). Before 
graduating from the New York 
University, he was elected Police 
Justice of New Rochelle, for a term 
of four years; was chosen uorpora- 
tion Counsel for several years. In 
1877 he was elected Register of 



Deeds of Westchester County, upon 
the Republican ticket, by a major- 
ity of 1,777 votes, although the 
county went Democratic, as to 
other nominees, by over a thou- 
sand majority. Mr. Banks is the 
only person ever elected president 
of New Rochelle for three succes- 
sive terms, a period of six years. 
He is a large operator in and own- 
er of real estate, is a hard worker 
and thinks for himself; is practi- 
cally a self-made man, having 
gradually reached his present posi- 
tion of a leading lawyer and busi- 
ness man by his own efforts and 
staying qualities. Mr. Banks has 
a large and lucrative clientage, and 
is recognized as an authority upon 
matters pertaining to real estate. 
Millions of dollars pass through 
his hands in the settlement of es- 
tates and investing of trust funds. 
While attending close to business 
he finds time to indulge in much 
that is a pleasure to him, is a lover 
of a good horse, and has the repu- 
tation of knowing one when he sees 



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it, and is a breeder of some of the 
choicest by way of pastime. He is 
also a lover of tarpon fishing and 
other sports, and for the past ten 
years with his wife has been a 
regular visitor to Florida during 
the winter. 



GEORGE W. DAVIDS. 

George W. Davids, formerly Vil- 
lage President, Supervisor, County 
Treasurer, etc., was born in New 
York city, on October 28, 1834, a 
son of Thaddeus Davids, the well- 
known writing ink manufacturer. 
When he was a mere lad his pa- 
rents became residents of New Ro- 
chelle and closely associated with 
the early history of the place; 
David's Island, the present site of 
Fort Slocum, was named in honor 
of the family. Young Davids was 
educated in the private school of 
New Rochelle; after leaving school, 
he, like several of his brothers, de- 
cided upon becoming a sailor; tired 
of this occupation he returned and 
entered his father's warerooms in 
New York City, where he con- 
tinued, most of the time as man- 
ager, up to the hour of his death, 
which occurred on April 4, 1883. 
He, as a young man, took an ac- 
tive interest in politics, on the side 
of Democracy; his popularity in- 
sured success whenever he consent- 
ed to be a candidate for office. He 
was elected President of the Vil- 
lage of New Rochelle, in 1867 and 
1868; was elected Supervisor of the 
Town in 1869, and re-elected six 
times; was chosen chairman of the 
Board of Supervisors; was elected 
without opposition to the office of 
County Treasurer; was two years 
Village Treasurer; was many years 
member and president of the Board 
of Education, was a Town Hall 
Commissioner; was seven years 
foreman of Enterprise Hook and 
Ladder Company, and served one 
term as chief of the local Fire De- 
partment; served many years as 
vestryman of Trinity Episcopal 
Church, and was conspicuous in 
the Masonic order, a member and 
prominent official of Huguenot 
Lodge, No. 46, P. and A. M. 



GEORGE T. DAVIS. 

George T. Davis, who formerly 
held the offices of Village Clerk, 
Town Clerk, Village Trustee, etc., 
was born in New Rochelle, on De- 
cember 12, 1843, the eldest son of 
Clark and Mary Ann Davis; a de- 
scendant, on the maternal side, of 
the early settlers of New Rochelle, 
and on the paternal side of the set- 
tlers of New Haven and Derby, 
Conn. At the time of his birth his 
father was captain of a market 
sloop plying between New Rochelle 
and New York City; in 1844 his 
father gave up the water and be- 
came a farmer in Upper New Ro- 
chelle. On this farm the subject 
of this sketch spent his boyhood 
days, attending the neighborhood 
public school, where he received 
his education. In May, 1862, he en- 
listed in Company A, 22d Regi- 
ment, N. G. S. N. Y., and served in 
Baltimore and Harper's Ferry. In 
1863 he re-enlisted, and took part 
in the Gettysburg campaign and 
was in the engagement at Sporting 
Hill, Pa., and in the bombardment 
of Carlisle, Pa.; was attached to 
the Army of the Potomac until 
Haggerstown, Md., was reached, 
when the regiment was sent home 
to assist in quelling the draft riots 
in New York, and shortly after was 
discharged. On leaving the army 
he returned to the farm and there 
remained until 1871. In 1871, on 
April 1, he succeeded his father in 
the undertaking business at Upper 
New Rochelle, a business that had 
been started by his father in 1864, 
and with which he had been con- 
nected, associated with his father. 
At the suggestion of prominent 
residents of New Rochelle, he re- 
moved his place of business to that 
village, locating first in the Town 
Hall building, then, three years 
later, in his present situation, cor- 
ner of Huguenot and Rose streets, 
and established a business, as a 
funeral director, second to none in 
the county. His business is con- 
fined not to New Rochelle alone, 
as New York city and elsewhere 
quite frequently demand his ser- 
vices. His eldest son, George M., 
who is a skilled embalmer, is as- 
sociated in business with him. Mr. 
Davis has personally directed some 
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ity. He has always taken an ac- 
tive interest in military matters; 
after the Civil War he joined Com- 
pany G, 17th Regiment, N. G. S. N. 
Y., and served until its disband- 
ment; he assisted in organizing 
Company D, 3d Regiment, N. Y. S. 
N. G., rising from a private 
through the several grades to a 
second lieutenant, resigning in 
1872; next joined the 27th Regi- 
ment, and subsequently the Eagle 
Troop of Cavalry, known as Troop 
E, the crack troop of New York 
State at that time, and arose to 
position of sergeant, and served in 
It six years and until Governor 
Cornell disbanded the cavalry and 
the company was reorganized as 
the Eleventh Separate Company, 
Infantry. Made several unsuccess- 
ful attempts to organize a military 
company in New Rochelle. He is a 
member of the Old Guard, New 
York City. Mr. Davis comes nat- 
urally by his military enthusiasm, 
his great-grandfather was a colo- 
nel and his grandfather a captain 
in the Connecticut militia, his 
brother also served in the New 
York militia, and a nephew in the 
late war with the Spaniards. Mr. 
Davis is now engaged in compiling 
a list of those who served in the 
various wars of the United States 
from New Rochelle. He has been 
actively associated with public af- 
fairs, and received many honors at 
the hands of his neighbors. In 1872 
he was elected Village Clerk, and 
held the position five consecutive 
years; elected Inspector of Election 
in 1873; Town Clerk in 1874; Ex- 
cise Commissioner in 1875; Town 
Auditor in 1878; Village Trustee in 
1893. He was the unsuccessful 
nominee of the Republican party 
for member of Assembly in 1881; 
was a clerk of every general elec- 
tion from 1871 to 1894; was Clerk 
and Register of first organized Vil- 
lage Board of Health, in 1882, serv- 
ing until 1888. Has been foremost 
in furthering public improvements, 
particularly in securing Hudson 
Park for the town, and a system of 
sewerage for the village, and re- 
cently was instrumental in secur- 
ing for the village a fire alarm sys- 
tem, which is under his charge as 
ssuperintendent. He joined Enter- 
prise Hook and Ladder Company, 
No. 1, in 1872, filled all the offices. 



acting as foreman four years; was 
Chief Engineer of the Fire De- 
partment one year; at the end of 
twenty years he left Enterprise and 
connected himself with Huguenot 
Engine Company, No. 1, and is its 
present foreman. He is a member 
of Huguenot Lodge, No. 46, F. & A. 
M., was its S. W. five years, treas- 
urer seven years; Huguenot Coun- 
cil, No. 397, R. A., its secretary 
seventeen years; Recorder of Echo 
Council, No. 55, L. A. B. A.; P. C. of 
Huguenot Commandery, No. 314, O. 
G. C; historian and quartermaster 
Flandreau Post, No. 509, G. A. R.; 
treasurer Court Robin Hood, No. 
8,058, A. O. F.; treasurer Court 
Robin Hood, No. 181, F. of A.; 
treasurer Siwaney Tribe, No. 335, 
I. O. R. M.; secretary Huguenot As- 
sociation of New Rochelle; treas- 
urer of New Rochelle Co-Operative 
B. & L. Association; director of 
Exempt Firemen's Association; is 
also a member of Cerneau Consis- 
tory, No. 1, A. A. S. R., Masons, 
and Ivanhoe Encampment, No. 30, 
K. of St. J. & M., of New York. 
He was one of the founders of St. 
John's E. Church, "Wilmot," New 
Rochelle, and in 1865 was elected 
its clerk and a vestryman, positions 
which he still retains. Mr. Davis 
was married August 11, 1869, to 
Miss Henrietta Palmer, daughter of 
John Palmer, of New Rochelle. 



MICHAEL J. DILLON. 

Michael J. Dillon, Supervisor of 
the town of New Rochelle, was 
born in that town on October 29, 
1852, the eldest son of John and 
Anne (Drought) Dillon, who were 
married in New Rochelle in 1849. 
Supervisor Dillon's maternal grand- 
father and his paternal grand- 
mother were among the early Irish 
settlers in New Rochelle, away 
before the "forties." He was edu- 
cated in private and public schools 
and in the Lockwood Academy of 
New Rochelle, graduating with 
honors. After leaving school he 
entered his father's grocery store 
as a clerk; subsequently he was 
appointed to an inspectorship in 
the city of New York, and then 
promoted to be contract clerk, in 
the same department, which posi- 
tion he held until the opposi- 



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tion party came into power. Mr. 
Dillon has always been a Democrat 
and for many years has been a rec- 
ognized leader in his party; he has 
been many times the successful 
candidate for public oflBce; in the 
village and town where he is best 
known he enjoys the confidence of 
his neighbors, as is evidenced by 
his repeated success at the polls. 
He was elected three times as 
Town Clerk, once as an Assessor, 
elected and served eight years as 
Receiver of Taxes, served ten years 
as Clerk of the Village, and at pres- 
ent is Supervisor, for which office 
he received a majority of 653, the 
largest ever given any candidate 
for a political office in that town. 
At the oro^anization of the 1898 
Board of Supervisors he was elect- 
ed chairman Board of Canvassers. 
Mr. Dillon has attended as a dele- 
gate almost every Democratic State 
Convention since 1879; in that year 
he was one of the delegates in the 
State Convention from the Second 
Assembly Disttriet. Mr. Dillon 
has for many years been a mem- 
ber of the Democratic County Com- 
mittee, and held many important 
positions connected with the com- 
mittee's work. For a long period 
he has been at the head of delega- 
tions sent by his town to the sev- 
eral conventions of his party, and 
has been frequently honored by 
election to the chairmanship of 
county. Senatorial and Assembly 
conventions. He is a member of 
many clubs and societies and 
stands well in social circles in New 
Rochelle and New York City; is a 
member of the Foresters, of the 
Knights of Columbus, and of the 
Democratic Club, of New York 
City. He has for many years been 
closely identified with the Fire De- 
partment of his town, energetically 
serving in the ranks, and for sev- 
eral years was foreman of Enter- 
prise Hook and Ladder Company. 
In his early life Mr. Dillon was 
considered an athlete of recog- 
nized merit, and as a baseball 
player justly won much local fame; 
he was captain of the then distin- 
guished New Rochelle Athletic 
Club, of New Rochelle, at the time 
Mr. Adrian Iselin, the Wall Street 
banker, erected the "one-hundred- 
thousand-dollar gymnasium build- 
ing," in New Rochelle, for that 



club. Mr. Dillon over twenty years 
ago established an extensive real 
estate, insurance and auctioneer 
business in New Rochelle and New 
York city, out of which he has 
realized a small fortune and the 
reputation of being a leader in his 
line. He has always taken an ac- 
tive interest in local public affairs 
and been a promoter of public im- 
provements. In 1882 he was mar- 
ried to Miss Annie Havey, daughter 
of Philip and Ann Havey, of East- 
chester; his wife died in 1884, leav- 
ing him a family consisting of 
three sons and one daughter, viz.: 
Gregory, John, Annie and Philip 
H. Dillon. 



CORNELIUS E. KENE 

Cornelius Eugene Kene, a former 
Justice of New Rochelle, was born 
in Brooklyn, N Y., on November 6, 
1852, a son of John R. and Ellen J. 
Kene. His parents removed to 
Tuckahoe, Westchester County, 
when he was a child, and he was 
educated in the public schools of 
that county until 1867. He studied 
in private preparatory schools in 
New York City, Baltimore and II- 
chester, Maryland, until 1871, and 
entering the Columbia College Law 
School, was graduated in May, 
1873. In December of the same 
year he was admitted to the bar. 
To gain a thorough Knowledge of 
general practice, he continued his 
studies for four years more with 
the firm of Close & Robertson, at 
White Plains, Westchester County. 
He spent the legislative winters of 
1876 and 1877 with Senator Robert- 
son, as clerk of the Senate Judici- 
ary Committee, at Albany, and as 
assistant to the Hon. Montgom- 
ery H. Throop, in the work of re- 
vising and editing the "Code of 
Civil Procedure." In 1877 Mr. 
Kene became a member of the firm 
of Banks, Keogh & Kene, which 
later became Banks & Kene, with 
offices at New Rochelle and Port 
Chester. Since January, 1879, he 
has practiced alone, recognized as 
one of the leading lawyers of the 
Westchester Bar; in 1885 he opened 
an office in New York city. 
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231 



Civil Justice, and Corporation 
Counsel of New Rochelle, of which 
he remains a citizen. His clientage 
extends over several counties and 
Into the State of Connecticut. He 
has been counsel in a large number 
of important litigations, involving 
large interests and intricate legal 
questions, and has earned the repu- 
tation of an industrious student 
and safe adviser. Although so busy 
as a professional man, Mr. Kene 
cultivates literature and the arts. 
He is a classical scholar, speaking 
several modern languages. He is 
the author of translations, for pri- 
vate circulation, in poetry and 
prose, from the Greek and Latin 
writers. He is a popular public 
speaker and has delivered numer- 
ous addresses. 

Mr. Kene married Emma Chris- 
tine Ehrhart, of New York City, in 
1887; of the union there are two 
bright sons. The residence of Mr. 
Kene is situated upon the highest 
ridge of Huguenot Park, in New 
Rochelle township, and commands 
a superb and unrivaled water view 
and landscapes; the broad Sound 
and north shore of Long Island 
from Great Neck to Orient Point on 
the east, the woodlands and mead- 
ows toward White Plains on the 
north, the Palisades and Jersey 
hills on the west, and on the south 
the territory as far as Manhattan 
Island are included in the vistas 
and prospects from his loggia and 
observatory. If Mr. Kene has a pas- 
sion, it is his enthusiastic love of 
nature. He is well pleased when 
allowed to dilate to his callers and 
friends upon her glorious changing 
scenery in the four seasons, as 
viewed from his home outlook. 



JAMES ROSS. 

James Ross, Postmaster at New 
Rochelle, was born in that town, 
on December 19, 1860, son of John 
G. and Catherine M. Ross. He was 
educated in the pubic schools of his 
native town. Shortly after leaving 
school he was appointed to the po- 
sition of Assistant Postmaster in 
the New Rochelle post office, under 
Postmaster Benjamin Badeau, and 
served in that office under Postmas- 
ters A. M. Dederer, W. H. Le Count 



and William V. Molloy. He was 
appointed Postmaster by President 
McKinley on April 12, 1898, to suc- 
ceed William V. Molloy, who had 
resigned on being elected Sheriff. 
Mr. Ross is considered one of the 
best informed men in the State on 
post office routine. It was his 
knowledge of what is required of 
a postmaster that suggested his 
appointment to President McKin- 
ley. Mr. Ross has always been a 
Republican, and is at present a 
recognized leader of his party. He 
has been elected to the offices of 
Village Trustee, Town Assessor, 
ten years, and Village Clerk. He 
has for many years been identi- 
fied with the New Rochelle Fire 
Department, and is a member of 
Relief Steam Fire Engine Company, 
at times filling the several offices 
in that company; he was its first 
foreman and held the office six 
years. He has for nine years been 
Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart- 
ment; the present high efficiency 
attained by the department is great- 
ly due to his energy and skillful 
management. 



ANDREW J. SELZ. 

Andrew J. Selz, Clerk of the Vil- 
lage of New Rochelle, was born on 
February 25, 1874, in that village, 
a son of August and Annie (Janz) 
Selz. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town and in 
the New York University. After 
completing a four year course, he 
began the study of law. In 1896 
he was appointed by President 
Clarke to the position of Village 
Clerk, and said appointment was 
confirmed by the Board of Village 
Trustees. He continues in the 
office. As an athlete Mr. Selz has 
had some prominence; in 1896 he 
was captain of the New York Uni- 
versity Club base ball team. He is 
a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fra- 
ternity and a member of Huguenot 
Lodge, F. & A. M. He is unmar- 
ried. Has always resided in New 
Rochelle. 



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JOHN Q. UXDERHILL. 

John Quincy Underbill, a former 
Village President. Village Triistee 
and member of the Board of Educa- 
tion, Town Auditor, and present 
President of tbe Board of Sewer 
Commissioners, of New Rochelle. 
and Congressman-elect, was born in 
New Rochelle. on February 19. 
1S4S, a son of George W. L. and Julia 
Ann (, Barker) Underbill : is a des- 
cendent of Capt John Underbill, 
(eighth generation in direct line), 
who came to this country from 
England in 1630: fought in the Ind- 
ian wars of New England and Xew 
York, and finally settled on Long 
Island, near Matinicock Point, 
which was a part of bis domain of 
two tbousand acres: from Capt. John 
Underbill descended all of the 
Westchester county Underbills. The 
subject of this sketch has been a 
resident of New Rochelle all bis 
life: be received his education in 
private and public schools and at 
the New York Free Academy, 
which is now the College of the 
City of New York. He entered the 
employ of tie Westchester Fire In- 
surance Company thirty years ago, 
and from a bumble clerkship he 
arose to the position of secretary. 



advancement earned by faitbful 
and intelligent service; this station 
be held nineteen years. The same 
qualities which bad commanded for 
him recognition, served to secure 
for him further promotion; he is at 
present Vice-President and Treas- 
urer of that company. In politics 
Mr. Underbill has always been 
identified with the Democratic 
party. He was elected a Village 
Trustee in 1S77, and in ISTS was 
elected Village President and was 
subsequently re-elected to these 
offices: in ISSO he was elected a 
Town Auditor; for several years he 
served as a member of the Board 
of Education. He is now. and has 
been for ten years. President of tbe 
Commissioners of Sewers and 
Drainage of tbe Village of New Ro- 
chelle. He was elected to Congi-ess 
November S. 1S9S. He is a member 
of tbe Larchmont Yacht Club, tbe 
New York Athletic Club, tbe New 
Rochelle Yacht Club, the New Ro- 
chelle Rowing Club, and the Demo- 
cratic Club of New York. He was 
married on November 16. 1S73. to 
Miss Minnie B. Price, daughter of 
James H. and Deborah B. Price, of 
Sag Harbor. N. Y.; of tbe union 
there is one child. Anna B. Under- 
bill. 



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TOWN OF NORTH CASTLE. 



North Castle became a township on March 7, 1788. It is situ- 
ated thirty-six miles from New York city. It is bounded north by 
towns of New Castle and Bedford, east by town of Poundridge, 
south by town of Harrison and State of Connecticut, and on the 
west by the town of Mount Pleasant. The origin of the town's name 
is attributed to the same object that suggested the name of the ad- 
jacent town of New Castle, the Indian castle that tradition credits 
the locality with possessing at one time, and which stood about 
where Armonk is now situated. The town of New Castle was set off 
from North Castle in 1791. The Indians styled the locality "Wam- 
pus Land," named in honor of Wampus, an Indian chief. In colon- 
ial records the old town is referred to as the "Liberty of North 
Castle." According to these records the inhabitants of the Liberty 
of North Castle, in 1724, petitioned the Court of General Sessions 
for permission to build a public pound. North Castle and New 
Castle were under the Colonial Government portions of the Manor 
of Scarsdale, Previous to the formation of the present township, 
April ye 6th, 1736, the first town meeting of record was held to 
elect ofTicers. Armonk, Banksville, Kensico, North Castle and 
Valhalla are prominent locaHties within the township. The town 
has no incorporated village. Tourists find much in this town that 
interests; the majestic lulls which abound, the gap styled "Brimstone 
Alley," the locality known as "Devil's Den," and a safe passage 
through the gloomy woods of the "Dark Valley," located just west 
of the high Whippoor-Will Hill. The Bronx river runs through a 
section of this town. Wampus Pond, a tributary of the Byram 
river, lies in the vicinity of Whippoor-Will Hill; Byram Lake is 
located in the north east part of the town. Cohamong Pond lies a 
miJe east of Byram Lake. Mehanas river forms the eastern bound- 
ary line, dividing the town from the town of Poundridge. From the 
Piye Ponds, hing upon the southern border of the town, issues the 
principal branch of the Bronx river. 

The town's history relating to American Revolutionary times 
is of especial interest, and many sections of the town have historic 
value CAving to scenes of strife enacted there during that period. 

The population of the town has been as follows: In 1830, 1,653; 
in 1835, 1,789; in 1840, 2,058; in 1845, 2,010; in 1850, 2,189; in 
1855, 2,415: in 1860, 2,487; in 1865, 2,198; in 1870, 1,996; in 1875, 
1,961; in 1880, 1,818; in 1890, 1,475. 

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of Supervisors as follows: Eeal property, $767,455; personal, $194,- 
865. The tax rate this year is $7.99 on each $1,000 of the assessed 
valuation. 

The present officials of the town are as follows: Joseph B. See, 
of Valhalla, Supervisor; Charles McDonald, of Armonk, Town 
Clerk; Charles Ferris, Isaac E. Tripp, John L. Weinheimer and 
Hobart Cox, Justices of the Peace; Joseph J. Johnson, of Armonk, 
Collector of Taxes. 



TOWN OF NOETH SALEM. 



The town of North Salem was organized March 7, 1788. It is 
situated about fifty-six miles from New York city. It is bounded on 
the north by Putnam County, east by the State of Connecticut, west 
by the town of Somers and on the south by the town of Lewisboro. 
The territory composing the town was prior to 1776 a part of 
Cortlandt Manor, and the north section of the town of Salem, the 
lower section of the latter town being South Salem, afterward Lewis- 
boro. The surface of the town is partly covered with lofty hills; 
the soil is well adapted to farming purposes. A fair average value 
of land is placed at one hundred dollars per acre. 

The Mutighticoos river runs through the center of the town 
and empties into the Croton river. Peach Pond, covering about 
four hundred acres of ground, lies in the north-east corner of the 
town; Beaver Pond, near by, is also an attractive sheet of water. 

Purdy Station, on the Harlem Eailroad, is situated near the 
junction of the Kitchawan or Croton and Mutighticoos rivers, in the 
western section of the town. 

Croton Falls, also a station on the line of the Harlem Eailroad, 
is in the north-west section of the town. 

Salem Center and North Salem are also prosperous localities 
within the township. 

The population of the town, according to the numerous census 
enumerations taken, has been as follows: In 1830, 1,276; in 1835, 
1,178; in 1840, 1,161; in 1845, 1,228; in 1850, 1,335; in 1855, 1,528; 
in 1860, 1,497; in 1865, 1,522; in 1870, 1,754; in 1875, 1,583; in 
1880, 1,693; in 1890, 1,730. The present population is estimated 
at 2,000. 

The assessed valuation of land in the town is fixed by the 
town Assessors last year, was: Eeal, $1,341,428; personal, $326,983. 
The tax rate this year is $5,007 per $1,000 on assessed valuation. 
The rate the preceding year was $8,102 per $1,000. The town has 



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no indebtedness, and has no back taxes due. There has been for 
some time no occasion to sell property for non-payment of taxes. 

The late Odle Close, as Supervisor, represented the town in 
the County Board of Supervisors for twenty-four consecutive years. 

The present town officials are as follows: Isaac Purdy, of Purdy 
Station, Supervisor; Albert J. Lobdell, of Salem Center, Town 
Clerk; Elbert S. Wilson, Odle J Whitlock, Walter K. Pitch and 
Robert F. White, Justices of the Peace; Friend J. Palmer, of Brews- 
ter, Collector of Taxes. 



TOWN OF OSSINING. 



This town was formerly a part of the town of Mount Pleasant, 
which bounds it on the east and south, and was made a separate or- 
ganization under the name of Ossinsing, on May 2, 1845, by an act 
of the Legislature. It was originally included in the Manor of 
Philipsbnrg. Historians in explaining the source from which the 
town received its name, say that Ossin-ing, the proper Indian or- 
thography of the word, variously written Sin-Sing, Sing Sing, Sin- 
Sinck and Sink Sink, is derived from Ossin (a stone) and ing (a 
place) or "stone upon stone." The name is certainly characteristic 
of this beautiful town, whose shore is guarded by a vast munition 
of rocks and ancient boulders. In the early days the section now 
occupied by the town was in the possession of a strong Mohegan 
tribe called the Sint Sings. 

The ancient boundary line of 1684, which divided the two col- 
onies of New York and Connecticut, passed a short distance south 
of Sparta, in the lower part of this town. 

By an act of the Legislature, passed March 14, 1846, the name 
of the town was changed from Ossinsing to that of Ossining. 

At the first town meeting, after the organization of the town, 
Joseph Hunt was elected Supervisor and George Sherwood Clerk. 

The town officials for 1897-8 are as follows: Supervisor, Gil- 
bert M. Todd; Town Clerk, Robert P. Dennis; Justices of the Peace, 
Thomas Leary, Wm. G. Valentine, Stewart Baker and Alonzo Mc- 
Neil; Assessors, Wm. F. Mezzer, A. J. Nowicki and Ebenezer Fow- 
ler; Receiver of Taxes, J. William Myers; Commissioners of High- 
ways, Edgar F. Wheeler, Stephen Brown and Bouregard Van Cort- 
landt; Town Auditors, James A. Hart, John E. Barlow and James 
Bedell; Town Health Board, Town Officers and S. G. Ellegood, 
citizen member; Town Health Officer, Dr. Hiram Barber. 



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The population of the town, as shown by the several censne 
enumerations, has been as follows: In 1845, 3,312; in 1850, 4,939; 
in 1855, 5,758; in 1860, 6,766; in 1865, 6,233; in 1870, 7,798; in 
1876, 8,533; in 1880, 8,769; in 1890, 10,058. 

But a small quantity of the land in the town is used for farm- 
ing purposes, it being considered too valuable, especially that which 
commands any kind of a view of the Hudson Eiver, on the banks of 
which the town is situated. Handsomely-laid-out villas, attractive 
country seats and other homes, of those who delight in the beauties 
of nature, are to be seen everywhere. A fair average price of land 
per acre is named as $1,000. The town tax rate of last year was 
$12.46 per $1,000, inside the village of Sing Sing, and $16.88 outr 
side. The town tax rate this year is, in the village, $3.6644; outside, 
$4.48174. 

The assessed valuation is: Eeal, $7,997,426; personal, $1,117,- 
512. There is no town indebtedness. 

Back taxes are payable to the Supervisor. Property sold for 
unpaid taxes is usually bought in by the town. The address of all 
town officers is Sing Sing, N. Y. 

Sing Sing, within the town of Ossining, was incorporated as a 
village under an act of the Legislature passed April 2, 1813. The 
first village election was held on first Tuesday in May, 1813, when 
"seven discreet freeholders," resident within the said village, were 
elected trustees. The bounds of the village were fixed by the act of 
incorporation as "the district of country in the town of Mount 
Pleasant, contained within the following limits, that is to say: Be- 
ginning at the Hudson Eiver, where a run of water, between the 
lands of Daniel Delevan and Albert Orser, empties into the said Hud- 
eon Eiver, north of Sing Sing, from thence eastwardly on a straight 
line to the house occupied by Charless Yo€, and including the said 
house, thence southwardly on a straight line until it intersects the 
Highland turnpike road on the south line of Samuel Ehodie's land, 
from thence westwardly on the south line of "William Street's land, 
to the Hudson Eiver, and thence northwardly along the said river 
to the place of beginning, shall hereafter be known and distin- 
guished by the name of "The Village of Sing Sing." 

The oldest book of records in possession of the present village 
authorities is the minutes of the Board of Village Trustees for 1853. 
Former records were unfortunately destroyed by fire. The first 
meeting mentioned in this book was that held by the Village Trus- 
tees on Monday evening, Nov. 21, 1853, in the office of A. H. Wells. 
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Gov. John T. Hoffman, presided, and Trustees Stephen Todd, J. 
Clement Yoe, Malborough Churchill, David McCord and Stephen 
Ayles, and Thomas E. Bridger, Clerk, were present. 

The site of the present village is supposed to be the same on 
which the ancient Indian settlement of Sing Sing stood, two hun- 
dred years ago. Its situation upon the banks of the Hudson, 180 
feet above tide water, overlooking the magnificent scenery of the 
Tappan Bay, makes it one of the most charming spots along that 
majestic river. In early times, it is said. Sing Sing was a favorite 
landing place for shipping the various marketable produce raised 
in the interior, and through its post office residents of the interior 
towns receive their mail matter. 

The State Prison, which has been the cause of several attempts 
0-" the part of citizens to have the name of the village changed, was 
erected under an act of the Legislature, passed March, 1824, and 
was completed in 1830; the present site was selected owing to its 
exhaustless bodies of marble, its healthy situation and its access- 
ibility by water. A fire which occurred in Dec, 1855, did consid- 
erable damage to the prison buildings. The State Legislature on 
March 11, 1856, passed an act appropriating $14,000 to the rep- 
aration, alteration and rebuilding of the shops connected with the 
prison thus destroyed. Many new additions to the prison main 
building and outbuildings have been constructed quite recently, 
making it at the present time one of the most valuable pieces of 
prison property in the State. Many of the convicts belonging to the 
prison are now employed on the village streets, building redressed 
stone retaining walls, etc., without charge for their services to the 
village. The last State Legislature authorized the expenditure of 
$30,000 for improvements at Sing Sing Prison. Many residents of 
Sing Sing consider that the presence of the prison in their midst is 
detrimental to the growth of the village. They want the prison to 
retain the name of Sing Sing and the village to be given another 
title. 

Mining operations were formerly carried on to a considerable 
extent in this vicinity, owing to the belief that silver ore lay buried 
in the earth near by. Old shafts sunk at the time are still visible. 

Its population, according to the census enumeration, taken in 
January of this year, is 8,160. In 1880 a census gave the population 
at 6,578, and in 1890 as 9,352. 

The act to provide a public water supply for Sing Sing was 
passed April 18, 1887. 

For date of organization of local banks, see special article under 
head of "Banks" in this book. 



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The village officers for 1897-98 are as follows: President, 
William Brandretli; Clerk, John M. Terwilliger; Tnisteee, Bernard 
C. Feeny, Edwin T. James, Albert I. Tompkins, Seth G. Ellegood, 
Geo. H. Eldridge, Eomaine Williams, J. Edward Holla, John Cuatt 
and Matthew McCabe; Corporation Counsel, John Gibney; Village 
Treasurer, William Terhune; Receiver of Taxes, J. William Myers; 
Police Justice, Milton C. Palmer; Chief of Police, George E. Carxi- 
gan; Chief of the Fire Department, James M. Jarvis; Village 
Health Board, Dr. E. B. Sherwood, Joseph Thompson and John E. 
Kinney; Village Health Officer, Dr. Hiram Barber; Postmaster, 
John I. Kane. 



TOWN OF PELHAM. 



The town of Pelham was formed March 7, 1788. The name, 
conferred upon the town by the Pells, is said to be derived from the 
lordship of Pelham, Herefordshire, England. The town is bounded 
on the east and north by the town of New Eochelle, on the west by 
the Hutchinson's (Aqueanouncke) river, and Eastchester, and on the 
south by Long Island Sound. The Hutchinson's river, which sepa- 
rates the town from Eastchester, was named in honor of the heroic 
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, who was the leading spirit in a colony of 
sixteen persons which settled in the vicinity of Pelham Neck, and 
who was, with several of her friends, murdered by Indians. 

The town is situated on the line of the New York, New Haven 
and Hartford Kailroad and on the Harlem branch road of same rail- 
road, about fifteen miles from New York city. 

Thomas Pell, said to have come from Fairfield, Connecticut, 
eleven years after the Hutchinson massacre, in 1654, succeeded in 
buying from the Indians a large tract of land covering a good part 
of what was afterward the town, and also the towns of East and West 
Chester. In 1666 a large portion of the Indian grant of 1654 was 
confirmed by Gov. Eichard Nicholls, of New York. 

The Pells, who succeeded each other as lords of the manor, were 
Thomas Pell, who died in 1669. John Pell, a nephew of the for- 
mer, who represented the county in the Provincial Assembly, and 
was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1688 to 1695; he 
was drowned while sailing a pleasure boat which foundered in a 
gale ofF City Island; his eldest son, Thomas, succeeded him as lord 
of the manor, and died in 1739 at the manor house. Joseph Pell, 
grandson of Thomas, was the fourth and last lord of the manor, and 



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died in 1776. The town has an interesting history connected with 
t]ie American Revolution. 

City Island, a locality of considerable pretensions, with an- 
other section of the town, was annexed to the City and County of 
New York by an act of the State Legislature passed in 1895. Hart's 
Island, which Hes to the east of City Island, is occupied by the De- 
partment of Charities and Correction of New York city for hospital 
purposes. High Island is located near the south shore of Pelham 
Neck. Pelham Bridge connects Pelham Neck and the Westchester 
shore. Pelham Bay Park, belonging to New York city, is situated 
within the old town limits. 

The population of the township as shown by various census 
enumerations has been as follows: In 1830, 334; in 1835, 255; in 
1840, 789; in 1845, 486; in 1850, 577; in 1855, 833; in 1860, 1,025; 
in 1865, 1,043; in 1870, 1,790; in 1875, 1,538; in 1880, 2,540; in 
1890, 3,941. The present population of the town is estimated 1,600; 
the decrease can be credited to loss of territory recently annexed 
to Greater New York city. 

The assessed valuation of property in the township, fixed by 
assessors last year, was as follows: Real, $2,161,259, personal, $59,- 
950. The town tax rate this year is $12.98 per $1,000 of assessed 
valuation outside the villages, $12.80 per $1,000 in side village of 
North Pelham, $11.82 per $1,000 inside village of Pelham, $10,327 
per $1,000 inside village of Pelham Manor. Last year the rate was, 
in the order given, $38.55, $18.27, $16.14, $12.77 per $1,000 of as- 
sessed valuation. 

The present town ofiicers are as follows: John M. Shinn, (of 
Pelham Manor,) Supervisor; Louis C. Young, Frank M. Lyon, Theo- 
dore M. Hill and A. G. C. Fletcher, Justices of the Peace; P. J. 
Marvil, (of North Pelham,) Town Clerk; John T. Logan, (of North 
Pelham,) Collector of Taxes. 

Within the town's limits are three villages, Pelham Manor, 
Pelham and North Pelham. Each of these villages are distinctively 
residence localities, containing the choicest of residence sites, afford- 
ing desirable homes for many prominent business men of New York 
city, as well as for others. 

Pelham Manor was incorporated as a village in 1891. Accord- 
ing to a census enumeration taken in January, 1898, it has a popula- 
tion of 436. The village is a station on the Harlem Branch of the 
New York, New Haven and Hartford Eailroad, ten miles from New 
York city. Travers Island, on which is located the Club House and 
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present village officers are: E. P. Gillaland, President; William K. 
Gillette, and W. B. Kandall, Trustees; John Doty, Clerk; C. F. 
Eupert, Collector of Taxes, and John H. Day, Treasurer. 

The village of Pelham was incorporated in 1896, and has a 
population, according to census of January, 1898, of 142. The vil- 
lage is a station on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Eail- 
road, fifteen miles from New York city. The present village officials 
are: S, Cushman Caldwell, President; R. K. Hubbard and Howard 
Scribner, Trustees; George K. Perry, Clerk; Wilham Webster, Col- 
lector of Taxes, and John Butler, Treasurer. This village is sup- 
posed to be the smallest in this country; it was incorporated by 
special act of the Legislature, at the request of seven persons. 

The village of North Pelham was incorporated in 1896, and has 
a population, as shown by census enumeration of January, 1898, of 
627. The village lies on the New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Eailroad, fifteen miles from New York city; the villages of Pelham 
and North Pelham share the one and the same railroad station at 
Pelham. These two latter villages are connected with Mount 
Vernon by trolley cars. 



TOWN OF POUNDEIDGE. 



This town has the distinction of being one of the first organized 
in the county, the date of its creation being March 7, 1788. It gets 
its name, according to general belief, from the ancient "Indian 
Pound," which formerly stood at the foot of a "high ridge," a little 
Bouth of the present locality known as Poundridge, and where the 
Indians set their traps for wild game. 

By the first settlement of the boundary lines, on May 14, 1731, 
Poundridge was transferred from Connecticut to the Province of 
New York. In 1744 John Crawford, it appears, was appointed first 
Assessor; Joseph Lockwood was the first chosen Clerk at a town 
meeting held April 1, 1760. 

Poundridge affords good farming land; the soil consists prin- 
cipally of a gravelly loam, and is well adapted to grass and pasturage, 
also excellent for orchard and fruit trees of all kinds. Hickory, 
chestnut, red, white and black oak trees abound. A fair average 
yalue of land is placed at $40 per acre. The rate of taxation in the 
town last year was $6.3567 per $1,000 of the assessed valuation. 
This year the rate is $6.99 per $1,000. 

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by the town. Information as to this subject will be furnished, on 
application, by the Supervisor. 

Back taxes are collected by the Supervisor of the town. 

The assessed valuation of property is: Real, $853,141; per- 
sonal, $183,885. There is no town indebtedness. 

The climate is announced by residents to be "perfectly de- 
lightful," and the town is so healthy that no physician has been able 
to find a lodgment here (but when real necessity demands physicians 
from neighboring towns can be readily summoned), and the town 
is so restful and peaceful that not even one lawyer is attempting to 
eke out an existence in this locality. The town has no banking in- 
stitution nor newspaper within its borders. 

The population, according to the census enumerations taken in 
the several years, was.: In 1830, 1,437; 1835, 1,426; 1840, 1,407; 
1845, 1,427; 1850, 1,486; 1855, 1,439; 1860, 1,471; 1865, 1,299; 
1870, 1,194; 1875, 1,008; 1880, 1,034; 1890, 830. 

The churches in the town are a Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. J. 
Moffatt, pastor, and a Methodist Church, Rev. Frank Wales, pastor, 
in Poundridge; Eastwood Methodist Pro. Church, Rev. I. B. Brown, 
pastor, East Poundridge; Great Hill Methodist Church, no regular 
pastor, South Poundridge. 

The postmasters are: Frederick R. Scofield, at Poundridge; 
Sivori Selleck, at Scotts Corners; Joseph W. Waterbury, at Bouton- 
ville. 

The town oiFicials for the year 1897-98 are: 

Supervisor, George I. Ruscoe, Scotts Corners; Town Clerk, 
William Jones, Poundridge; Justices of the Peace, George I. Ruscoe, 
Scotts Corners, W. A. Reichester, Poundridge, Charles H. Abbott, 
Boutonville, James H. Bedell, Long Ridge; Assessors, Heniy C. 
Brown, Geo. N. Fancher and Henry W. Miller; Commissioners of 
Highways, Sivori Selleck, Russell Scofield and Gardner Marshall; 
Collector of Taxes, Elbert Barhite, Poundridge. 

Collectors of School Taxes: District No. 1, Jared Potts, Long 
Ridge, Fairfield County, Conn.; District No. 2, John 0. Waterbury, 
High Ridge, Fairfield County, Conn.; District No. 3, George H. 
Todd, Poundridge; District No. 4, Isaac Valien, Vista; District No. 
5, Elbert Barhite, Poundridge; District No. 6, Charles H. Abbott, 
Boutonville. 

The nearest railroad station to Scotts Corners and Poundridge 
is at New Canaan, Conn., on the New York, New Haven and Hart- 
ford Railroad. 

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the Town Health Board and the Board of Town Auditors. Dr. 
William G. Stowe, of Cross Eiver, town of Lewisboro, is Town 
Health Officer. 



TOWN OF RYE. 



The present town of Eye dates its organization from March 7, 
1788. Prior to tliis it included territory now forming the towns of 
Harrison and White Plains, and is one of the oldest settlements in 
the county. The town is bounded on the east by the State of Con- 
necticut, on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west and north 
by the towns of Harrison and North Castle. It is named in honor of 
Eye, County of Sussex, England. The name the Indians gave the 
town was Peningoe, Peninggoe or Poningoe, supposed to be derived 
from Ponus, the name of the chief who controlled the territory in 
about 1640. The first grantees under the Indians of Poningoe were 
the Dutch West India Company, who secured in 1640 a grant of land 
extending from Norwalk, Conn., to the Hudson river, which gave 
the Dutch, up to the purchase and settlement by the English, full 
possession of Westchester County. For a period Eye was a part of 
the Colony of Connecticut, as was the town of Bedford. The Gov- 
ernor of the Colony of New York at the time protested against 
Connecticut's claim to possession of the said towns, and an appeal to 
the King had to be made; the latter decided that the towns properly 
belonged to the Colony of New York. On May 14, 1731, the town 
lines were established as we find them to-day. 

Peter Disbrow, John Coe, Thomas Studwell and John Budd 
are named as the successors, in 1660, of the Dutch West India Com- 
pany and the first settlers of the town; they came from Greenwich, 
Conn. They also arranged independent purchases of land from the 
Indians. These owners disposed of the land at the rate of forty 
shillings per lot, payable in cattle or corn. The first settlement of 
the town was eft'ected in 1660, near the ford, at the southern end of 
Manursing Island. Here was established a village to which its in- 
habitants gave the name of Hastings, in honor of Hastings, County 
of Sussex, England. Other localities subsequently settled were con- 
Bidered as suburbs of the island village, the influence of the village 
extending as far north, on Poningoe Neck, as the present village of 
Port Chester. In 1692, by an act of the Assembly of the Province of 
New York, Eye was created a "Market town." entitled to the extra- 
ordinary privilege of holding a yearly fair, in the month of October. 
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The Courts of Sessions were held in this town during the 
Colonial period. 

The County Board of Supervisors was first organized in this 
town. 

In 1739 a ferry was established between this town and Oyster 
Bay, Long Island. The ferry was continued many years. 

In 1745 Peter Jay became a landed property owner in the town; 
in 1797 he devised by will this property to his brother, Hon. John 
Jay; the latter by deed conveyed it to Peter Augustus Jay, on Sep- 
tember 16, 1832. 

The town's population as shown by the various census enumer- 
ations, has been as follows: In 1830, 1,603; in 1835, 1,607; in 1840, 
1,803; in 1845, 2,180; in 1850, 2,584; in 1855, 3,468; in 1860, 4,447; 
in 1865, 4,675; in 1870, 7,150; in 1875, 5,936; in 1880, 6,576; in 
1890, 9,477. 

The present town officials are as follows: Charles Eldredge, Su- 
pervisor; George Grandison, Town Clerk; Stephen A. Marshall, 
Thomas M. Parker (of Port Chester), Bernard Baruch (of Eye) and 
Augustus L. Hains (of Eye Neck), Justices of the Peace; Thomas 
Jordan, Eeceiver of Taxes. Post office address. Port Chester, N. Y. 

The town has but one village, that of Pori; Chester; though Eye 
Neck, a section of the town, is united with a section of the town of 
Mamaroneck in forming the village of Mamaroneck. 

The present village of Port Chester was incorporated in 1868. 
Prior to 1837 the village was known as Sawpits, the name adopted 
April 23, 1823; the change of name was effected March 11, 1837. 
The village is situated on the west bank of the Byram (or Armonck) 
Eiver, which forms the boundary between the States of New York 
and Connecticut, and which takes its rise from the Byram Lake. 
East Port Chester, which is an important and thickly settled suburb 
of the village of Port Chester, is situated on the east bank of the 
Byram Eiver, in the State of Connecticut; the bridges connecting 
the two places were built at the expense of the County of Westches- 
ter and of the State of Connecticut jointly. Hawthorne Beach, in 
East Port Chester, is a favorite summer resort for residents of Port 
Chester and vicinity. 

The population of the village was in 1880, 3,254; in 1890, it 
had increased to 5,274; according to a census taken in January, 
1898, the present population is 7,257. 

The village has a most excellent public library and reading- 
room, located in an imposing brick building, situated on Main 
Street, the whole the gift of the late Hon. Jared V. Peck. The act 



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incorporating the library and reading-room was passed by the State 
Legislature in 1877. 

Port Chester is a manufacturing center of no mean pretensions. 
Its several industries give employment to many hundred persons. 
It has direct communication with New York city by water, a regular 
line of steamboats running daily. 

The present officers of the village are as follows: John W. Mc- 
Carty, President; Samuel Comly, William J. Foster, Joseph H. Mar- 
shall, James S. Merritt, John F. Mills and James Patterson, Trus- 
tees; J. Alvord Perk, Clerk; Thomas Jordan, Receiver of Taxes. 

The unincorporated village of Eye is a station on the line of the 
New York, New Haven and Hartford Eailroad, twenty-four miles 
from New York city. It abounds in beautiful scenery and is an 
ideal residence place. Eye Beach and Oakland Beach, quite famous 
as summer resorts, and noted for fine bathing, are located in this 
vicinity, and are connected with the local railroad station by a line 
of public stages. The Mockquams or Blink Brook, a never-failing 
stream, runs through the place. The locality known as Milton is 
near by, not far distant from the local railroad station. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



WILLIAM P. ABENDROTH. 

William Philip Abendroth, a 
former President of the village of 
Port Chester, was born in Germany 
on December 18. 1818. In 1832 his 
parents came to this country and 
settled in New York city. Young 
Abendroth did not remain long in 
the latter city, for very soon after 
his arrival in this country he is 
found working industriously as an 
apprentice in the foundry belong- 
ing to Dr. Eliphalet Nott, in Al- 
bany. Here he remained two years. 
His opportunities for gaining an 
education had been limited, and as 
he had an energetic, inquisitive, in- 
ventive mind, which craved for 
knowledge, he determined to make 
the best of hours he could spare 
from his daily toil. Like other lads 
who have to work all day for their 
livelihood, he turned to the evening 
public school for the desired assist- 
ance. He was a hard-working stu- 
dent as he was a diligent, trust- 
worthy apprentice. When Dr. Nott, 
in 1834, went to New York city and 



started the Novelty Iron Works he 
took young Abendroth with him. 
The latter finished his apprentice- 
ship in 1836. Subsequently Mr. 
Abendroth was employed at his 
trade in Jersey City, New Orleans, 
Cincinnati. St. Louis and Stamford. 
In 1840 he formed a partnership 
with Philip Rollhaus and they be- 
gan at Port Chester the manufac- 
ture of stoves, pipe, etc. Their bus- 
iness prospered and soon was rec- 
ognized as one of the principal iron 
industries of the country. In 1842 
the New York city warerooms of 
the firm were opened. In 1845 
Philip Rollhaus retired from the 
firm and his place was taken by 
Augustus and John Abendroth, 
brothers of William P. Abendroth. 
Later John D. Fraser, a brother-in- 
law of the latter, was also made a 
member of the firm. In 1876 the 
firm was changed to a stock com- 
pany, under the title of the Aben- 
droth Brothers' Eagle Iron Works, 
with William P. Abendroth at its 
head. This company daily em- 
ploys many hundred persons and is 




WILLIAM P. ABENDROTH. 




JOHN H. CLAPP. 



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a mainstay of the vicinity. Mr. 
Abendroth was one instrumental in 
the organization of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Port Chester, and 
was one of the first directors, which 
position he held up to the time of 
his death. He was president of the 
Port Chester Savings Bank from 
the date of its organization, and his 
death only terminated his tenure of 
office. He was one of the organ- 
izers of the Port Chester Mutual 
Loan and Building Association in 
1853. He assisted materially in or- 
ganizing the local fire department 
in 1854. For three years, commenc- 
ing in 1857, Mr. Abendroth was 
foreman of Putnam Engine Com- 
pany. In 1861 he was elected one of 
the Fire Trustees of Port Chester. 
In 1874 he was one of the organ- 
izers of the Firemen's Benevolent 
Fund Association. He was a life 
member of Armour Lodge, F. and 
A. M. As President of the village 
of Port Chester he proved to be a 
conscientious, fearless official, giv- 
ing much of his valuable time to 
further the interests of his fellow- 
citizens. It was generally regretted 
when he announced that his busi- 
ness would not permit of his giving 
so much time to public service. In 
politics Mr. Abendroth was a Dem- 
ocrat. He subsequently was mainly 
instrumental in having introduced 
a public water supply for the vil- 
lage. It is an admitted fact that no 
one man contributed more than 
William P. Abendroth to the 
growth and present prosperity of 
the thriving village of Port Ches- 
ter, and when he died, on January 
29, 1898, there was genuine mourn- 
ing among residents of that village 
and vicinity, who had been brought 
to realize their loss. Mr. Aben- 
droth was married in October, 1843, 
to Miss Anna Maria Fraser, in Jer- 
sey City, N. J. Of the union there 
are now living five children — Mrs. 
John F. Mills, Mrs. M. R. Hoag- 
land, Frank A. Abendroth, John W. 
Abendroth and Mrs. F. C. Dickson. 
Mrs. Abendroth survives her hus- 
band. 



JOHN H. CLAPP. 

John H. Clapp was born in White 
Plains on September 6, 1847, a son 
of John J. and Maria C. (Banta) 



Clapp. His father, who was a Su- 
pervisor of the town of White 
Plains in 1855 and 1856 and a rec- 
ognized leader of the Westchester 
County bar, died in White Plains 
on February 6, 1866. Hin mother 
died in Port Chester on November 
27, 1895. His great-grandfather. 
John Clapp, who resided at White 
Plains, was clerk of the first Colo- 
nial Assembly from 1691 to 1698, 
and clerk of Westchester County in 
1708. He is of Dutch ancestry, his 
ancestors on both sides coming to 
this country from Holland about 
1652. He was prepared for college 
in the schools of his native town 
and graduated from Union College 
in 1869, and later received the de- 
gree of Master of Arts. Imme- 
diately after graduation he began 
the study of law, entering the 
White Plains office of Hon. Jackson 
0. Dykman, now a Justice of the 
Supreme Court. Mr. Clapp was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Poughkeepsie 
in June, 1870. Shortly after he 
formed a partnership with Hon. 
Amherst Wight, Jr., the firm estab- 
lishing offices in Port Chester and 
New York city, and from the very 
start conducted a large and remu- 
nerative practice. Mr. Wight died 
in 1877, when Mr. Clapp succeeded 
to the business and still continues 
with offices at No. 141 Broadv/ay, 
New York. His practice is general. 
He has been successful as counsel 
in many important cases involving 
sums aggregating millions of dol- 
lars. Mr. Clapp is prominent in the 
Masonic Order, being one of the 
oldest members and a former mas- 
ter of Mamaro Lodge, No. 653, F. 
and A. M., of Port Chester; a mem- 
ber of the Alpha Delta Phi Club, a 
member of the American Yacht 
Club, a member of the New York 
Athletic Club, and a member of the 
New York Republican Club. Mr. 
Clapp is a Republican and has long 
been recognized as one of the lead- 
ers of that party in the County of 
Westchester. He has received many 
honors at the hands of his party 
and is a familiar figure at Repub- 
lican conventions in the capacity 
of a delegate. On November 5, 
1874, Mr. Clapp was married to 
Mrs. Mary J. Purdy Ropes, daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel and Mary Purdy, 
of Rye. 



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TOWN OF SCARSDALE. 



The present township of Scarsdale was, in colonial times, a part 
of the manor of Scarsdale, as was what is now the towns of North 
Castle, New Castle and a part of the town of White Plains. It waa 
created a town on March 7, 1788. The name was given in honor of 
Scarsdale, Derbyshire, England, the place from which came Colonel 
Caleb Heathcote, who purchased from the Indians the lands which 
the manor embraced. On March 2, 1701, the lands purchased by 
Colonel Heathcote were erected into the lordship and manor of 
Scarsdale, "to be holden of the king in free and common soccage, 
its lord yielding and rendering therefor annually, upon the festival 
of the Nativity, five pounds current money of New York, etc." 

Colonel Caleb Heathcote, the first lord of the manor of Scarsdale, 
was bom in England, March 6, 1665; he arrived in New York in 
1692, and soon after became prominent in the affairs of the colony. 
He was judge of Westchester County, colonel of the militia of this 
county and of the AYest Eiding, on Long Island, all his life, first 
mayor of the borough of Westchester; a councillor and surveyor-gen- 
eral of the province; mayor of New York for three years, commander 
of the colony's forces, and from 1705 to his death, in 1721, was re- 
ceiver-general of the customs for all North America. The eldest 
daughter, Anne Heathcote, married Hon. James De Lancey, lieu- 
tenant-governor of the province of New York; their son. Major John 
Peter De Lancey, of Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, was the owner of 
the Scarsdale estates up to about 1824; he bequeathed the property 
among his five children. At the present time but a small portion of 
(he estates remain in possession of the descendants of Caleb Heath- 
cote. Scarsdale is also famous as the birthplace of Daniel D. Tomp- 
kins, the fourth Governor of this State, and subsequently Vice- 
President of the United States. He was the seventh son of Hon. 
Jonathan G. Tompkins. The middle letter "D" in his name was 
added simply to distinguish him from another Daniel Tompkins who 
attended the same college with him. The father of Daniel D. 
Tompkins served as a member of the State convention which adopt- 
ed the Declaration of Independence and the first Constitution of the 
State; was a member of the State Legislature during the Revolution- 
ary period; was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of this coun- 
ty, and later a regent of the State University. He died shortly after 
his son was inaugurated Vice-President. A biographical sketch of 
Daniel D. Tompkins is pubHshed elsewhere in this volume. By sug- 
gestion of and through the agency of the Westchester County His- 



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torical Society, a tablet was very recently, in 1898, erected, in Scars- 
dale, to mark the birthplace of Daniel D. Tompkins; it was unveiled 
with appropriate exercises; the inscription is to the effect that the 
tablet was erected to mark the birthplace of a former Governor of 
the State of New York and Vice-President of the United States, and 
one of the most honored citizens of this county. The land on which 
the tablet is placed now belongs to Charles Butler. 

The population of this township at the various censuses which 
have been taken is as follows: In 1830, 317; in 1835, 329; in 1840, 
225; in 1845, 341; in 1850, 342; in 1855, 445; in 1860, 548; in 1865, 
557; in 1870, 517; in 1875, 529; in 1880, 614; in 1890, 633. 

The present town officials are as follows: Chauncey T. Secor, 
Supervisor (address. White Plains,); Joseph Morrell, Town Clerk 
(address. White plains,); C. W. Gaylor, Gilbert W. Dobbs, William 
Mercer and C. B. Fish, Justices of the Peace; Gilbert M. Dobbs, Col- 
lector of Taxes. 

The assessed valuation of property in the town was in 1897 as 
follows: Eeal, $1,468,128; personal, $180,200. The tax rate this 
year is $5.83 on each $1,000 valuation. 



TOWN OF SOMEES. 



This town was organized on March 7, 1888. Prior to this date 
it formed a part of the town of Hanover, in the Manor of Cortlandt. 
At its formation it took the name of Stephentown, out of respect 
to Stephen Van Cortlandt, a large landed property owner, a de- 
scendant of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who purchased the tenitory 
in 1699 from the Indians, and received a deed from Sachima 
Wicker, the chief of the Kightawonck tribe. The first town meeting 
held in Stephentown, according to the records, was on the first 
Tuesday of April, 1788, at the residence of Benjamin Green. Hach- 
aliah Brown was elected Supervisor; William Horton, Town Clerk; 
Obadiah Purdy, Nathaniel Wright, Herman Hilliker and Samuel 
Green, Assessors; John Stedwell and Jacob Lent, Overseers of the 
Poor; Benjamin Green, Collector and Constable. 

On April 6, 1808, the electors decided upon a change of name 
for the town. The name chosen, Somers, was given in honor of the 
young American naval officer, Lieutenant Richard Somers, who had 
become famous by acts of bravery displayed in the Tripolitan War 
that occurred in 1804. The American naval officer in charge of the 
assault upon Tripoli decided upon converting one of his vessels into 



248 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 

a Hoating mine and this mine or fire-ship, it was planned, was to be 
gent into the harbor, to explode before the walls of the fortress and 
in the midst of the enemy's cruisers. Young Somers volunteered to 
command a small number of men, as brave as he, on the desired ex- 
pedition of destruction, even though it meant sure death to him and 
his comrades. They started on their dangerous mission on board of 
the iioating mine, on the night of Sept. 4, 1804. With the explosion 
of the mine perished Somers and liis courageous associates — a band 
of heroes worthy of a better fate. As an officer and a man, young 
Somers was well worthy of all the honor bestowed by grateful coun- 
trymen upon his name and memory. 

The town is situated on the Harlem Eailroad, fifty miles from 
New York City. The scenery in and about Somers is very attractive. 
It is considered a good farming country, the farms generally are 
large and very productive, the Croton River and other streams run- 
ning through and close by furnish ample water supply. Lake Ma- 
hopac, a charming sheet of water, one mile in diameter, in which is 
embosomed two or three small islands, lies close to the borders of 
the town. 

The population of the town, as shown by census enumerations 
in 1830 and since, has been as follows: In 1830, 1,997; 1835, 1,900; 
1840, 2,082; 1845, 1,761; 1850, 1,722; 1855, 1,744; 1860, 2,012; 
1865, 1,695; 1870, 1,721; 1875, 1,631; 1880, 1,630; 1890, 1,897. 

By an act of the Legislature, passed May 12, 1846, that part of 
the town of Somers, lying on the southwesterly side of the Croton 
Eiver, was annexed to the town of New Castle. 

The present assessed value of real property in the town is $983,- 
494; personal property, $221,450. The tax rate is $3.55 on $1,000, 
the lowest of any town in the county. Last year the rate was $5.19 
on $1,000. 

The present town officers are: Supervisor, Samuel M. Louns- 
bury, Somers; Town Clerk, Stephen F. Lane, Somers; Collector of 
Taxes, David E. Bassett, Baldwin Place (these officers were elected 
in March, 1898); Justices of the Peace, James Hyatt, Somers, Z. 
M. Knowles, Katonah, Joseph T. Griffin, Somers Centre, and H. G. 
Barrett, West Somers; Assessors, George E. Teed, Goldens Bridge, 
John Eeynolds, Croton Lake, and R. Smith, Somers Centre. Super- 
visor Lounsbury succeeded James P. Teed, who served the town as 
SupeFvisor for eighteen years, continuously. 



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TOWN OF WHITE PLAINS. 



This town is in the count}'' seat of Westchester County, situated 
©n the Harlem Kailroad, 23 miles from the city of New York. It 
was purchased from the Indians in 1683, and was originally a part of 
the town of Eye. March 7, 1788, is the date of its creation, making 
it one of the early organized towns of the county. The town de- 
rives its name from the White Balsam (Gnaphalium Polycephalum 
of Linnoeus), Gnaphalium, signifying soft down or wool. The land 
was purchased from the tribe of Indians over wliich the Chief Ora- 
waupum ruled. 

From the year 1725 to the date of formation as a town, by an 
act of the Legislature, it was known as the White Plains Precinct. 
The precinct electors met annually, on the first Tuesday of April, 
to elect a Supervisor, a Clerk and other necessary officers. The first 
precinct election was held in April, 1727. Between the years 1776 
and 1783, owing to White Plains at that period being a "seat of 
war," no elections were held. The Battle of White Plains was 
fought Oct. 28, 1776. The British, under Gen. Howe, defeated 
Gen. Washington at the head of the Continental forces. The loss 
on either side was reported to be similar, between 300 and 400. 

This town is justly given a prominent place in the history of 
the American Eevolution and the bravery of its early settlers is 
highly commended. Owing to the loyalty of its residents, the 
Fourth Provincial Congress was induced to hold a session in this 
town, at the Court House, from the 9th to the 27th of July, 1776; 
on the first day the Declaration of Independence was unanimously 
approved, and on the following day the Congress decided upon a 
change of name, to be known thereafter as the "Convention of the 
Eepresentatives of the State of New York." Here and thus the 
Empire State was born. When the Congress was ordered to this 
town, "with all papers and money, all lead, powder and other mili- 
tary stores belonging to the State," the journey from New York 
was performed by the members on horseback, led by Pierre Van 
Cortlandt, its president. As orderlies from Gen. Washington over- 
took them, the Congress was called to order on horseback, and busi- 
ness was transa.cted. 

No definite information as to the population of the precinct 
or town, in its earliest history, is obtainable. In 1830 the population 
of the town was 739; in 1835, 876; in 1840, 1,087; in 1845, 1,155; 
in 1850, 1,414; in 1855, 1,512; in 1860, 1,846; in 1865, 2,122; in 
1870, 2,630; in 1875, 2,749; in 1880, 4,094; in 1890, 4,508. 



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The town, witk its picturesque scenery, its historic associations 
and elegant building sites, is proving every year more attractive aa 
a place of residence. Already many millions of dollars have been 
invested by distinguished citizens in the erection of the palatial 
abodes which may be seen in all parts of the town. Especially at^ 
tractive is this place to men doing business in New York City. 
Trains on the Harlem Railroad are run at convenient hours, many 
of them tlirough express trains, at an interval of 45 minutes. Th« 
local railroad station is situated ^dthin the business section of the 
town. 

To a fire that occurred on Dec. 1, 1851, and consumed Craw- 
ford's Hotel and other buildings, opposite the old Court House, on 
South Broadway, is attributed the organization of the Fire Depart- 
ment in this village; on that very day a public meeting was held in 
the Court House, and the first steps toward organization were taken. 
In 1854 the department began to take shape, and on April 10, 1857, 
the department was incorporated. 

An article relating to the three Court Houses erected in this 
village will be found elsewhere in this work. 

The following are the names of residents who have served aa 
Town Clerks, in this town, since 1727 to date: 

Caleb Hyatt, Jr., 1727 to 1776. 

Daniel Horton, 1783 to 1787. 

Joseph Prior, 1787 to 1788. 

WilHam Barker, Jr., 1788 to 1800. 

Stephen Barker, 1800 to 1804. 

David Falconer, 1804 to 1806. 

Stephen Barker, 1806 to 1810. 

Josiah Horton, 1810 to 1812. 

Minott Mitchell, 1812 to 1838. 

Joseph S. lyiitchell, 1838 to 1842. 

John W. MiUs, 1842 to 1844. 

Schuyler C. Tompkins, 1844 to 1849. 

Enoch Dick and Ehas P. Purdy, 1849 to 1851. 

Carlton Parmer, 1851 to 1852. 

Wilham H. Huestis, 1854 to 1857. 

Caleb Morgan, Jr., 1867 to 1868. 

Abram J. Hyatt, 1868 to 1871. 

D. B. Stephens, 1871 to 1873. 



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Wm. H. Cutter, 1873 to 1875. 

E. Baxter and Abram J. Hyatt, 1875 to 1876. 

J. E. Underhill, 1876 to 1877. 

Abram J. Hyatt, 1877 to 1879. 

Henry A. Maynard, 1879 to 1885. 

Charles P. Paulding, 1885 to 1886. 

Francis H. Hessels, 1886 to 1889. 

Chas. P. Paulding, 1889 to 1898. 

Louis Piatt, 1898, now acting. 

The total assessed value of property in the town, according to 
official assessment just completed, is: Eeal estate, $7,34-1,176; per- 
sonal, $2,699,077. 

The present year's rate of taxation in town is $-4.12 per $1,000, 
valuation inside corporate limits, and $5.81 per $1,000 outside in- 
corporated limits. 

Back taxes are payable to the Supervisor of the town. Prop- 
erty sold for the non-payment of taxes, at an advertised tax sale, is, 
as a general thing, bought in by the town, but individuals are not 
prevented from becoming purchasers. 

The present town officials are: Frank G. Schirmer, Super- 
visor; Lewis C. Piatt, Town Clerk; Minott M. Silliman, Ffarrington 
M. Thompson, George T. Capron and W. W. Ford, Justices of the 
Peace; E. G. Sutherland, Receiver of Taxes. 

The village of "White Plains lies mostly in the town of White 
Plains, a small portion, on the west side, lying in the town of Green- 
burgh. The village was incorporated April 3, 1866. 

The population in 1880 was 2,381; in 1890 it was 4,042; the 
last census enumeration, taken in Jan., 1898, fixed the population at 
7,363. 

The present village officers are: Samuel C. Miller, President; 
W. B. Sutherland, Clerk; William Cromwell, Charles Deutermann, 
John Emberson, Christopher Harmon, George L. Miller, John T. 
Eeliill, William S. Sterling, Charles P. Sherwood, Stephen C. Smith 
and David Verplanck, Trustees; William S. Verplanck, Tax Col- 
lector. The post office address of town and village officials, White 
Plains, N. Y. 

Cars of the local trolley company connect the village with Tar- 
rytown on the Hudson River, and with Mamaroneck on Long Island 
Sound. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



GEORGE T. CAPRON. 

George Truman Capron, Justice 
of the Peace of the town of White 
Plains, was born in the city of New 
York, on May 30, 1858, a son of 
Jacob and Jane E. (Ballenger) Ca- 
pron. He was educated at the 
Friends' Seminary, New York city, 
and the Columbia College Law 
School. Was married on Septem- 
ber 10, 1891, to Miss Phebe H. Car- 
penter, daughter of Jacob A. and 
Mary A. Carpenter, of Harrison, N. 
Y. In politics Mr. Capron has al- 
ways been connected with the Re- 
publican party, and at the hands of 
his party he has received many 
honors. Since his removal to 
White Plains, which occurred in 
1892, he has been actively asso- 
ciated with public affairs. In 1896 
he was elected to his present office 
and in the same year was chosen 
Acting Police Justice of the village 
of White Plains. Mr. Capron is 
also regent of the White Plains 
Council, No. 1,762, R. A., in the or- 
ganization of which he was the 
prime mover. 

HENRY T. DYKMAN. 

Henry Trowbridge Dykman, a 
former President of the village of 
White Plains, was born in Cold 
Spring, Putnam County, N. Y., on 
December 16, 1856, a son of Jackson 
O. and Emily L. (Trowbridge) Dyk- 
man. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town and 
in Willis' Military Academy, White 
Plains. In 1S66 he came to White 
Plains with his parents, and has 
resided there ever since. At an 
early age he began the study of law 
in the office of his father. In 1870, 
when only fourteen years old, he 
became connected with the New 
York City Water Supply proceed- 
ings, and assisted materially in per- 
fecting searches and aiding counsel 
and commissioners engaged in ac- 
quiring land needed for the purpose 
in hand. In 1877, December 16, on 
the very day he became twenty-one 
years of age, he was admitted to 
the bar. Since 1879 Mr. Dykman 



I has practiced law on his own ac- 
I count, having his offices at White 
Plains; besides caring for a large 
private practice, he has, since 1880, 
represented New York city in all 
special proceedings brought to ac- 
quire land by appraisement for wa- 
ter supply purposes, having sole 
charge of all matters pertaining to 
Westchester County, acting under 
the immediate direction of the Cor- 
poration Council of the city of New 
York. He is an indefatigable 
worker, devoted to the cause of his 
clients. He has always prepared 
his briefs and argued his own 
causes. No man is better known in 
the courts and his genial qualities 
insure him many friends. Legal 
victories gained and his long reten- 
tion as counsel by New York city, 
through different political adminis- 
trations, attest his value and 
worth. Politically Mr. Dykman has 
always been a Democrat, and has 
been active in the interest of his 
party, but has never been an as- 
pirant for office, though his party 
friends have bestowed upon him, 
from time to time, many honors, 
electing him as delegate to judicial 
conventions, etc. He has held the 
non-political offices of President, 
Treasurer, Counsel of Village and 
Counsel of Water Board of the vil- 
lage of White Plains; the two latter 
offices he still holds. The official 
positions held came to him not 
through his seeking them, but be- 
cause his ability to fill the same 
was recognized by his fellow-citi- 
zens, irrespective of party. He has 
recently been successful in what is 
commonly termed the Rockefeller 
assessment cases, succeeding in set- 
ting aside assessments levied by the 
town of Mount Pleasant and saving 
to his client many hundred thous- 
ands of dollars. Mr. Dykman was 
married in April, 1879, to Miss Ella 
Cline, daughter of John H. and 
Helen B. Cline, of Armenia, N. Y., 
and has three children, two daugh- 
ters and a son. 



JEREMIAH T. LOCKWOOD. 

Jeremiah T. Lockwood, Water 
Commissioner, of White Plains, 



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was born on November 3, 1846, at 
New Canaan, Conn., a son of Jere- 
miah and Jane (Schuagar) Lock- 
wood. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town and 
at Bedford, in this county, to which 
place his parents had removed In 
June, 1859. It was while residing 
at Bedford, on August 28, 1862, 
when only sixteen years of age, 
that Mr. Lockwood enlisted for the 
late civil war. He was on the latter 
date sent to New York city on an 
errand by his father, when hap- 
pening to pass a recruiting station 
on Franklin Street, he was attract- 
ed by the appeals of a man in uni- 
form calling upon patriots to 
hasten and respond to their coun- 
try's call for volunteers. The ap- 
peal proved too much for young 
Lockwood. The boy inscribed his 
name upon the list of raw recruits. 
He was attached to Company A, 
Fourth New York Heavy Artillery, 
at Fort Franklin, Md. He was the 
youngest member of the company. 
He participated in all the battles 
in which his company was engaged, 
from the Wilderness to Petersburg, 
and was severely wounded. He was 
discharged August 28, 1865, just 
three years from date of enlistment. 
Mr. Lockwood is a member of Mc- 
Keel Post, No. 120, G. A. R., and is 
president of the Fourth New York 
Heavy Artillery Volunteers' Asso- 
ciation. He was elected Treasurer 
of School District No. 1, of White 
Plains and Harrison in 1888, and 
still holds that position. He was 
appointed a Water Commissioner of 
the village of White Plains in 1896 
and continues in the office. He was 
appointed on March 16, 1898, by 
Governor Black, as a manager of 
the Women's Reformatory at Bed- 
ford. Was married on November 
21, 1888, to Miss Louisa Carpenter, 
daughter of Franklin and Helen 
Carpenter, of White Plains. Mr. 
Lockwood takes an active interest 
In politics as a Republican. He is 
engaged in the furniture and under- 
taking business at White Plains, 
■where he has resided twenty years. 



EDWARD B. LONG. 

Edward B. Long, a former Jus- 
tice of the Peace, a former Village 



Trustee, and a present member of 
the Board of Education of White 
Plains, was born in Jamesburgh, 
N. J., on May 22, 1841, a son of 
William D, and Sarah L. (Bennett) 
Long. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town. At 
the breaking out of the Civil War 
he enlisted in Co. G, 1st Regiment, 
N. J. Vols., in the Union Army; he 
took part in the first battle of Bull 
Run, and afterwards served in the 
Army of the Potomac, in Kearny's 
Brigade of the 6th Army Corps, 
and was commended for meritori- 
ous conduct on the battlefield. 
When discharged from the army, 
in 1865, he became a resident of 
White Plains, where he yet has his 
home. He has for many years been 
prominently identified with public 
affairs in the latter place. In 1876 
Mr. Long purchased the Westches- 
ter News, which he still owns, and 
of which newspaper he is editor 
and publisher. He has succeeded 
in making this journal a recog- 
nized Republican organ of the 
county, exerting considerable in- 
fluence. He was one most instru- 
mental in organizing the James 
Cromwell Post, No. 466, G. A. R., 
of White Plains, and was the post's 
commander for many years. He 
was elected a Justice of the Peace 
for the town of White Plains and 
served in that office sixteen years. 
In 1885 he was elected a Trustee of 
the village of White Plains, and 
served in that capacity eleven years. 
He was elected a member of the 
Board of Education in 1875, and 
has continued in that office ever 
since. He has been frequently 
elected by his neighbors as a dele- 
gate to State and other conven- 
tions of his political party, and is 
recognized as a party leader; in 
1882 he was the Republican candi- 
date for Congress; his party being 
in the minority in the district he 
failed of an election. Recently his 
name was presented to the Repub- 
lican County Nominating Conven- 
tion for County Treasurer, and at 
another time for nomination for 
the office of Sheriff; in each in- 
stance he fell only a few votes 
short of the nomination. To his 
influence is due mainly the reor- 
ganization of the Westchester 
County Agricultural and Horticul- 
tural Society, which was effected in 



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1885, and of which he is the secre- I 
tary. Mr. Long was married Octo- ! 
ber 27, 1867, to Miss Sarah T. 
Thiell, daughter of John and Sarah 
Thiell, of White Plains. 



WILLIAM B. MAYNARD. 

William P. Maynard, former 
postmaster of White Plains, was 
born in Buffalo, N. Y., on Septem- 
ber 7, 1843, his parents being E. A. | 
and W. V. (Hart) Maynard. He 
was educated in the public schools 
of Buffalo. Mr. Maynard removed 
to White Plains in 1863, where he 
was engaged for sixteen years as a 
photographer. In 1879 he disposed 
of his business to his assistant, 
John Rosch. He then removed 
west, remaining in Springfield, j 
Ohio, two years and in Chicago one I 
year; has since resided in White 
Plains; was married May 14, 1867, | 
to Miss Nettie C. Colburn, daughter 
of the late Amasa S. Colburn, of 
Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Maynard 
died June 27, 1892, less than a 
month after she and her husband, 
with numerous friends, had cele- 
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of their marriage. Mrs. Maynard 
had been an invalid for many years 
and a great sufferer, yet through it 
all she maintained a cheerful spirit, 
anxious not to be of trouble to her 
loved ones, especially her husband, 
whose principal desire was to meet 
her every wish and administer to 
her comfort and relief. In 1886 Mr. 
Maynard became the pioneer in the 
work of constructing the now one- 
hundred-feet-wide Mamaroneck Av- 
enue in his village, an attractive 
resident street, as well as extending 
Court Street. He took the initia- 
tory steps, purchased a large tract 
of ground lying between lines of 
both streets and inside of ten daj's 
from date of purchase had the 
Btreet cut through, lots laid out, 
water and gas introduced and shade 
trees planted. Within two years he 
had succeeded in selling every lot, 
thus creating a new residence sec- 
tion and adding twenty-four new 
taxpayers to the tax assessment 
rolls. In commendation of his en- 
terprise he was unanimously 
chosen a Village Trustee in 1889 



and in 1890 his fellow-citizens 
urged upon him the acceptance of 
the appointment as postmaster of 
White Plains. He served in the of- 
fice from April, 1890, to April 1, 
1894. During his term the receipts 
of the office doubled and the grade 
was raised from a third to a second- 
class; on November 4, 1892, Mr. 
Maynard realized his ambition, 
when he was able to enter a hand- 
some new post office located in an 
imposing brick building erected by 
F. H. Nowell for the purpose, and 
in answer to Mr. Maynard's urg- 
ings. Though a Republican, Mr. 
Maynard is in no sense a politician. 
At present he is engaged in the real 
estate and insurance business. 



GEORGE L. MILLER. 

George Leonard Miller, a Trustee 
of the village of White Plains, was 
born on January 6, 1849, in the said 
village, and has lived there all his 
life. He is a son of Leonard and 
Eliza Jane (Renoud) Miller, and is 
a descendant on the maternal side 
from the early Huguenots, who 
landed and settled in New Rochelle 
in 1686. He attended the public 
schools and finished his studies in 
the Alexandria Institute of his na- 
tive town, after which he learned 
the trade of a carpenter. He is one 
of the best-known carpenters and 
builders in White Plains and vicin- 
ity, having commenced business on 
his own account in January, 1877, 
and is now giving employment to 
many men, and is one of the fairest 
and most conscientious employers 
of labor to be found anywhere. His 
popularity as a citizen has fre- 
quently suggested his availability 
as a candidate for public office, but 
he has never been prevailed upon 
to accept other than the office ho 
now holds, that of Village Trustee, 
to which he was elected in 1895, and 
which office he has held since. Mr. 
Miller was married on October 18, 
1876, to Miss Hettie A. Cole, daugh- 
ter of James and Esther (Van Wart) 
Cole, of Greenburgh, and great- 
granddaughter of Isaac Van Wart, 
who was one of the three men who 
effected the capture of Major An- 
dr6 during the American revolu- 
tion. 




JOHN P. MORAN. 




GEORGE L. MILLER. 




WILLIAM P. MAYNARD. 




EDWARD B- LONG. 






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STUART DEAN PLATT. 



Aged seventeen months; son of "W. Popham Piatt, a former District 
Attorney; a grandson of the first elected Surrogate of Westchester 
County; a nephew of a former Deputy County Clerk; a nephew of a 
recent Deputy Clerk of the Surrogate and a present Town Clerk. He 
is not himself an office-holder, nor even a voter, but he is mounted to win 
in the not far distant He is here seen taking the first lesson necessary 
to be learned bj' a woiald-be successful politician— how to control a kicker. 



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JOHN P. MORAN. 

John P. Moran, Police Justice 
and postmaster of White Plains, 
and one of that locality's best- 
known and most genial citizens, 
was born in White Plains on June 
20, 1858, a son of Patrick and Maria 
(Haley) Moran. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native 
village and started out early in life 
on a business career. He has al- 
ways resided in White Plains and 
for many years has been engaged 
actively and successfully as a real 
estate broker. He never married, 
which omission he explains by say- 
ing that he either lacked the cour- 
age to ask the all-important ques- 
tion or that he never thought he 
had time to give the matter of mar- 
riage due deliberation. Mr. Moran 
Is an ardent Republican, a recog- 
nized party leader in the county 
and as a young man proved an apt 
pupil under the instruction of one 
of the cleverest in politics, his close 
friend, former Judge William H. 
Robertson. Mr. Moran's first polit- 
ical oflBce was that of Collector of 
Taxes of the village of White 
Plains. He was for twelve years 
a trustee of the Union Free School 
of the joint district of the towns of 
White Plains and Harrison and 
clerk of that Board of Education 
for the same number of years. He 
Is now serving his fourth year as 
Police Justice of the village of 
White Plains; is at present a mem- 
ber and secretary of the White 
Plains Board of Water Commis- 
sioners. He was appointed by Pres- 
ident McKinley as postmaster of 
White Plains on March 17, 1898, 
and took possession of the offlce on 
May 2, following. In the first week 
of his administration he inaugu- 
rated a movement having for its 
purpose the introduction of free 
postal delivery. 



LEWIS C. PLATT, JR. 

Lewis C. Piatt, Jr., Town Clerk 
of the town of White Plains, was 
born on September 20, 1862, at 
White Plains, a son of Judge Lewis 
Canfield and Laura (Sherbrook 
Popham) Piatt. He was educated 
In the public schools at White 
Plains and has always resided in 
his native town. He was appointed 



by Surrogate Cofifin on August 7, 
1887, as Record Clerk to the Sur- 
rogate's Court, and continued in 
that ofllce until March 1, 1896; from 
January 1, 1895, to March 1, 1896, 
serving under Surrogate Silkman, 
being succeeded on latter date by a 
Republican. Mr. Piatt was admit- 
ted to practice at the bar on De- 
cember 11, 1894, and soon after be- 
came attached to the law offices of 
Piatt & Thompson. At the town 
election held March 29, 1898, he was 
elected on the Democratic ticket as 
the representative of the younger 
Democracy to the office of Town 
Clerk. He is also treasurer of the 
Democratic Committee of his town. 
He served as chief engineer of the 
White Plains Fire Department in 
1886-87. He is a member of White 
Plains Lodge, No. 473, F. and A. M. 
Mr. Piatt was married on June 15, 
1892, to Miss Fannie A. Armbru- 
ster, daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth Armbruster, of White Plains. 



JAMES W. STAFFORD. 

James Ward Stafford, former 
School Trustee, was born in Cana- 
joharie, N. Y., on April 8, 1862, of 
American parentage, a son of Joab 
and Maria (Swart) Stafford. He 
was educated in the schools of his 
native town, graduating from the 
Canajoharle High School and also 
from the Clinton Liberal Institute 
at Fort Plain, N. Y.; subsequently 
he graduated from the Albany Col- 
lege of Pharmacy in 1885, being the 
valedictorian of his class. He was 
married on June 7, 1886, to Lillian 
M. Terhune, daughter of Henry C. 
Terhune, of Red Bank, N. J. His 
wife died in 1890. His second mar- 
riage occurred January 27, 1892, to 
Miss Cornelia A. Slauson, daughter 
of Austin M. and Elizabeth Slau- 
son, of New York city. Mr. Staf- 
ford is engaged in business as a 
prescription druggist. In politics 
he is a Republican, and though he 
has ever taken an active interest 
in public affairs he has held, from 
preference, only one office, that of a 
School Trustee of the White Plains 
School District. He is a member of 
the White Plains Lodge, No. 473. 
F. and A. M., and is a member of 
Court White Plains, No. 249, F. of 
A. M. 



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JAMES YOUNG, JR. 

James Young, Jr., a Water Com- 
missioner and ex-Trustee of the 
village of White Plains, was born 
on February 8, 1858, in the city of 
New York, a son of James and Mar- 
garet (Mills) Young. When four 
years of age his parents removed to 
Sing Sing, and there he resided 
until his removal to White Plains 
in 1882. He received the advant- 



Ella M. Fick, daughter of William 
Fick, of Carryville, N. Y. His wife 
died February 6, 1891. His second 
marriage occurred on June 4, 1894, 
when he married Miss Jane B. 
Archibald, daughter of James B. 
and Susan (Saul) Archibald, of 
Yonkers. Mr. Young is extensively 
engaged in the livery business. He 
was elected as a Republican to the 
office of Village Trustee and served 
in the years 1894-95-96. He was 
unanimously appointed in March, 
ages of good public schools in Sing j 1898, by the Board of Village Trus- 
sing village. Mr. Young was mar- 1 tees as a Water Commissioner of 
Tied on August 18, 1886, to Miss ' the village. 



CITY AND TOWN OF YONKERS. 



Yonkers is one of the oldest towns of the State, having been 
settled but a few years after New York and Albany. Was incor- 
porated as a township in 1788, The excellent water power, so con- 
venient to navigation, was probably the reason of tliis preference. 
The first settler of whom we have any authentic accounts was 
Adrian Vanderdonck, who purchased lands at the north of the Saw 
Mill Eiver and erected houses and mills. The date of his death is 
uncertain, but must have occurred about 1654. His wife was named 
Mary Doughty, a native of Maspetb, Long Island. After his death 
she married Hugh O'Neil, and in 1666 obtained a grant from Gov- 
ernor Nichols, confirming them in the possession of the property. 
In 1677 she sold it to her brother, Elias Doughty, who in turn sold 
it, in 1685, to Frederick Philipse. These sales include about seven 
thousand acres, adjacent to the mouth of the Saw Mill. 

Philipse added greatly to the extent of this property, and creat- 
ed the manor of Philipsburg in 1693; at his death the manor em- 
braced about forty thousand acres, covering the greater part of 
Yonkers, all Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, and parts of Ossining 
and New Castle. He died in 1702, at an advanced age, and by his 
will divided his estate between his second son, Adolphus, and his 
grandson, Frederick, the representative of his eldest son, who had 
died a year or two before in Barbadoes. Adolphus died without 
children, in 1749, and thus the whole estate became vested in Fred- 
erick Philipse, who died in 1751, leaving the manor to Frederick 
Philipse, his eldest son. 

During the War of Independence, this gentleman, after much 
hesitation, joined the English side, and his estate was, consequently, 



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confiscated in 1779, after having remained in the family for ninety- 
four years. After the war, Frederick Philipse removed to England, 
where he died at Chester, in 1785, aged sixty-five years. The Brit- 
ish Government granted him a compensation of £60,000 for his 
losses. 

The manor was sold in small parcels by Commissioners of For- 
feiture appointed by the Legislature. The price obtained was very 
low, owing to the scarcity of money occasioned by the war. Good 
farming land within the limits of the old village incorporation 
brought only $1.88 an acre. The Manor House, water privileges and 
three hundred and tAventy acres of ground adjacent were bought by 
Cornelius P. Lowe. After passing through several hands, this prop- 
erty was finally bought by Lemuel Wells, after whose death it was 
divided among his heirs, and later came in possession of a large num- 
ber of proprietors. 

During the Revolutionary War, Yonkers was liable to be rav- 
aged by parties from both the contending armies. No action, how- 
ever, of any important influence on the final result took place within 
its Hmits. A party of Stockbridge Indians were badly cut up by 
Simcoe's Refugee Horse in the valley of Tibbitt's Brook, about two 
miles south of the old village line, in 1778, and there was a skirmish, 
accompanied with a cannonade, near Spuyten Duyvil, in January, 
1777, which resulted in forcing back the British advanced posts from 
Westchester to New York Island. 

Yonkers is the southwestern township of Westchester County, 
and is bounded on the north by Greenburgh, on the east by the 
Eiver Bronx, which separates it from East Chester and Mount Ver- 
non; on the south by New York city, and on the west by the Hudson 
River. Few towns of equal extent are better supplied with springs, 
brooks and running water. The Saw Mill River, which waters the 
northern half of the township, rises in the town of New Castle, this 
county, near Chappaqua station. The Sprain rises in the town of 
Greenburgh, and empties into the Bronx about a mile north of 
Hunt's Bridge. Tibbett's Brook rises in the high ground immedi- 
ately south of the Bronxville road, and runs thence about five miles 
nearly due south, to Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The highest point in 
the town has been determined by the United States Coast Survey to 
be 516 feet above the level of the sea. 

The population of the township at the various censuses which 
have been taken is as follows: In 1790, 1,125; in 1800, 1,176; 
in 1810, 1,365; in 1815, 954; in 1820, 1,586; in 1825, 1,621; in 1830, 
1,761; in 1835, 1,879; in 1840, 2,968; in 1845, 2,517; in 1850, 4,160; 



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in 1855, 7,554; in 1860, 11,848; in 1865, 12,756; in 1870, 18,357; 
in 1875 (as a city), 17,232; in 1880 (the city), 18,892; in 1890 (the 
city), 30,033. The decrease between 1810 and 1815 was owing to 
the war with England. 

The Croton aqueduct, to supply New York city with water, 
was constructed through this town between 1840 and 1845. 

The village of Yonkers was incorporated on April 12, 1855. 
Its first elected officers were: William Eadford, President; William 
C. Waring, Jacob Eead, Lemuel C. Wells, Thomas 0. Farrington, 
Eeuben W. Van Pelt and Fielding S. Gant, Trustees; Wilham H. 
Post, Clerk; John M. Stillwell, Treasurer, and Lyman F. Bradley, 
Collector. The number of votes cast at this village election was 
504. The succeeding Village Presidents were: William W. Wood- 
worth, Sobert P. Getty, Thomas F. Morris, John T. Waring, Everett 
Clapp, James C. Bell, Justus Lawrence, I. H. Knox, Eobert P. 
Getty. 

The local Fire Department was organized in 1853; Daniel Blau- 
velt served as its first Chief Engineer. The department, one of the 
best, in the State, has now fifteen fully equipped companies. It is in 
part a paid department, directed by Fire Commissioners. The Fire 
Department Association, to increase the department's efficiency and 
aid sick and disabled firemen, was organized July 7, 1858, with 
Thomas Smith as its first president. 

On invitation of the local Fire Department and citizens, the 
New York State Firemen's Association will hold its annual conven- 
tion of 1899 in this city. 

The first newspaper, the Yonkers Herald, was estabhshed in Yon- 
kers on June 19, 1852, by Thomas Smith and Thomas Towndrow; 
a few weeks later Mr. Smith became the sole proprietor of the news- 
paper, and continued its publication many years. Mr. Smith sub- 
sequently issued the first daily newspaper published in the county. 

The churches in the -sallage were organized in the following or- 
der: St. John's Episcopal, in 1753; First Methodist Episcopal, in 
1828; Eeformed Church, in 1842; St. Mary's Catholic, in 1848; Mt. 
Olivet Baptist (afterward the Warburton Avenue Baptist), in 1849; 
First Presbyterian, in 1852; Unitarian, in 1853; Westminster Pres- 
byterian, in 1858; St. Paul's Episcopal, in 1858; Methodist Congre- 
gational, in 1858. Churches organized more recently are the Afri- 
can Methodist, Christ Episcopal, Dayspring Presbyterian, German 
Methodist, Immanuel Presbyterian Chapel, Messiah Baptist, Nep- 
perhan Avenue Baptist, Parkhill Eeformed, St. Andrew's Memorial, 
St. John's German Evangelical Lutheran; St. Joseph's Catholic. 



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A union free school district was established in 1858, and John 
Hobbs, Thomas Smith, J. F. WiUiams, Josiah Eich, W. N. Seymour 
and J. H. Monckton were elected members of the Board of Educa- 
tion. 

Mention of the Yonkers banks is made elsewhere in this vol- 
ume. 

Gas was first introduced in the village during the year 1854. 
The act to provide Yonkers with water was passed February 28, 
1873. 

Philipse Manor House, which was erected in 1862, was occupied 
as a private residence, its last occupant being ex-Judge William W. 
Woodworth, until 1868, when it was purchased by the village au- 
thorities for use as a village hall. It is at present used as a City 
Hall, in which the Common Council holds meetings, and in which 
various city officials have offices. The building preserves its old ap- 
pearance excepting such alterations as had to be made to render it 
available for present service. A new municipal building was erect- 
ed in 1897. 

The town and village of Yonkers was incorporated as a city on 
June 1, 1872, by act of the State Legislature, under the name of the 
city of Yonkers, and was divided into four wards. The first city 
officers elected were: James C. Courter, Mayor; John Brennan, E. L. 
Seger, Albert Keeler, William MacFarlane, Ethan Flagg, H. L. Gar- 
rison, Henry R. Hicks and Z. H. Brower, Aldermen. The succeed- 
ing Mayors were: Joseph Masten, William A. Gibson, Joseph Mas- 
ten, Norton P. Otis, Samuel Swift, W. G. Stahlnecker, J. Harvey 
Bell, James Millward, James H. Weller, John G. Peene and Leslie 
Sutherland. 

The city is justly famous for its beautiful, shaded streets, paved 
or asphalted, complete sewerage and general modem equipments 
As a residence place it has few superiors; the costly dwellings erected 
on desirable sites, commanding charming river and land views, at- 
test this. Its many attractions have earned for it the title of the 
"Queen City." 

The present population of the city is estimated at 40,000. 

As a manufacturing city it is well known. Here are located 
the factories of the Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Company, 
which gives daily employment to about 7,000 persons; the 
shops of the Waring Hat Manufacturing Company, the largest in 
the country, employ at least 2,000 persons daily; the extensive eleva- 
tor and electric plant of Otis Brothers & Co.; the refinery of tho 



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National Sugar Eefining Company, and industries of almost every 
description. 

The following named persons are officials of the city: Leslie 
Sutherland, Mayor; John H. Southwick and William H. Costello, 
First Ward; E. A. Houston and John H. Sehlobohm, Second Ward; 
Hyatt L. Garrison and George H. Kaler, Third Ward; John J. 
Loehr and Michael J. Walsh, Fourth Ward; Robert Ferguson and 
Abraham H. Tompkins, Fifth Ward; John J. Broderick and Patrick 
J. Curren, Sixth Ward; Edgar U. Reynolds and Francis J. Hackett, 
Seventh Ward, Aldermen. John Pagan, City Clerk; Henry B. 
Archer, Receiver of Taxes; Robert P. Getty, City Treasurer; Charles 
F. Brown, City Auditor; William C. Kellogg, City Judge; James M. 
Hunt, City Attorney; Samuel L. Cooper, Commissioner of Public 
Works; William P. Constable, Commissioner of Charities; John C. 
Shotts, President Board of Water Commissioners; Charles H. Fan- 
cher. President of the Board of Education; Charles E. Gorton, Su- 
perintendent of Schools; Francis P. Treanor, President Board of Po- 
lice; James McLaughlin, Captain of Police; Caleb F. Underbill, 
President Board of Assessors; Edgar M. Hermance, M. D., President 
Board of Health; John Rowland, President Board of Fire Commis- 
sioners; Edwin L. Thomas, President Civil Service Commission; Au- 
gustus Kipp, Inspector of Buildings; David Chambers, Inspector of 
Boilers. 



BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



JAMES M. HUNT. 

James Monroe Hunt, Corporation 
Counsel, City of Yonkers, and 
Counsel to the Board of Supervis- 
ors, was born in Clarence, N. Y., 
on April 6, 1858; a son of Rev. Har- 
rison P. and Caroline (Holmes) 
Hunt. His preparatory education 
was received in the public schools 
and at the Brockport State Normal 
School. In 1880 he was graduated 
from the University of Rochester, 
subsequently receiving the degree 
of Master of Arts. After graduat- 
ing, he began the study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar in New 
York city in November, 1882. Since 
his admission he has practiced con- 
tinuously in this city, building up a 
lucrative business. Confining him- 
self to no particular specialty, his 
vrrv'k has covered a broad field. He 



has appeared as counsel in many 
important cases, including that of 
Uppington vs. Keenan, in which a 
verdict of $80,000 was secured for 
the plaintiff in the first trial. A 
notable case in the Court of Ap- 
peals, the Board of Health of Yon- 
kers vs. Copcutt, clearly defined for 
the first time in this State the pow- 
ers and liabilities of boards of 
health. Mr. Hunt became a resident 
of Yonkers in 1882. Since 1892 he has 
been Corporation Counsel of that 
city. In 1897 he was chosen coun- 
sel to the Westchester County 
Board of Supervisors. He is the 
representative of the Comptroller 
of the State in many important le- 
gal matters. He is an acknowl- 
edged leader of the Republican par- 
ty in "Westchester County, and for 
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261 



of Yonkers, in which position he 
displayed special ability as an exec- 
utive officer and organizer. To him 
is greatly due the present efficient 
organization of the party in that 
ity. Mr. Hunt was married on 
June 5, 1883. to Miss Normie L. 
Fanning, daughter of A. M, Fan- 
ning, of New York city. 



WALDO G. MORSE. 

Waldo Grant Morse, a Palisade 
Commissioner, was born in Roches- 
ter, N. Y., on March 13, 1859, a son 
of Adolphus and Mary E. (Grant) 
Morse, seventh in descent from 
Samuel Morse, who settled in Ded- 
ham, Mass., in 1635, and, on the 
maternal side, sixth in descent 
from Christopher Grant, one of the 
founders of Watertown, Mass. He 
was educated in Rochester and en- 
tered the University of Rochester, 
but owing to ill health left before 
completing the course, spending 
two years in rest and travel. He 
read law with Martindale & Oliver, 
of Rochester, and was admitted to 
the bar at Buffalo in 1884. In 1888 
he removed to New York city and 
opened law offices, and has been in 
his present location, at No. 10 Wall 
Street, since 1890. As a public 
speaker Mr. Morse is eloquent, sin- 
cere and impressive, and has been 
in demand on important occasions 
outside of his general duties as a 
lawyer. In his practice he has had 
charge of many cases involving im- 
portant interests and made a spe- 
cial study of the laws involved in 
corporate and financial transac- 
tions. He has taken a special in- 
terest in the movement to preserve 
the Palisades of the Hudson from 
defacement. He drafted and se- 
cured the passage of the bill in the 
State Legislature for the appoint- 
ment of the Palisade Commission- 
ers of the State of New York in 
1895, and drew the Palisades Na- 
tional Reservation bills passed by 
the States of New York and New 
Jersey in 1896. He also drafted the 
act on the subject now before Con- 
gress. Upon the passage of the leg- 
islative bill he was appointed by 
Governor Morton one of the three 
Palisades Commissioners to act 
conjointly with three appointed by 



Governor Werts, of New Jersey, 
and was made secretary and treas- 
urer of the joint Commission for 
the States of New York and New 
Jersey. He is now president of the 
Morse Society, incorporated under 
the laws of the State of New York, 
is a member of the American Acad- 
emy of Political and Social Science, 
of the American Bar Association, 
of the New York State Bar Asso- 
ciation, of the Association of the 
Bar of the City of New York, of the 
Westchester County Bar Associa- 
tion, of the Society of Colonial 
Wars, of the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion, of the Lawyers' Reform, Quill, 
Amackassin Seagkill Golf and 
other clubs. He is a resident of the 
city of Yonkers. Mr. Morse was 
married June 22, 1886, to Miss Ade- 
laide P. Cook, daughter of Albert 
Cook, Seneca Falls, N. Y. 



JOHN G. PEENE. 

John G. Peene, former Mayor of 
Yonkers, was born February 23, 
1843, in Yonkers. He is a son of 
Joseph and Caroline A. T. (Garri- 
son) Peene. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native 
town. When quite young he be- 
came associated in business with 
his father, who had, in company 
with his uncle, Hyatt L. Garri- 
son, established the first line of 
freight boats between Yonkers and 
New York city. During the civil 
war he served his country as a pri- 
vate in the Fifth Duryea Zouave 
Regiment, enlisting in 1861 and 
serving two years. At the com- 
mencement of his career he exhib- 
ited a great business capacity, and 
to his energy is due much of the 
success of the Ben Franklin Trans- 
portation Company, the main 
freight line between Yonkers and 
New York, at the head of which he 
is at the present time, associated 
with his brothers, Joseph and 
George. For many years he has 
been connected with public affairs 
as a business man, though an ac- 
tive Republican, his large business 
interests prevented his yielding to 
the urgings of political friends and 
accepting public office. In 1872 
Governor Dix appointed Mr. Peene 
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position he held but a short time, 
as business required him to relin- 
quish it. He was subsequently ap- 
pointed one of the Water Commis- 
sioners of the city of Yonkers. He 
was elected as the Republican nom- 
inee as Mayor and served from 
1894 to 1898. For years Mr. Peene 
has been recognized as one of the 
leaders of his party in the county, 
and was a prominent figure at all 
the party conventions — national, 
State and local. With Hon. Wil- 
liam H. Robertson he attended as 
a delegate the National Convention 
which nominated William McKin- 
ley for President. He is a member 
of the Republican League and has 
attended its national conventions 
as a delegate. He is a member of 
the Yonkers Board of Trade. Mr. 
Peene was married on November 
24, 1864, to Miss Jeannette A. Starr, 
daughter of Benjamin A. Starr, of 
Yonkers. His wife died on May 22, 
1882. He was again married on 
August 1, 1884, to Miss Ava L. Hol- 
der, daughter of F. T. Holder, of 
Yonkers. 



JOHN H. SCHLOBOHM. 

John H. Schlobohm, Alderman, 
of the city of Yonkers, was born at 
Holstein, Germany, in 1843, and 
came to America in 1860. Seven 
years after his arrival in the United 
States he became a resident of Yon- 
kers. He has been many years a 
hotel proprietor in that city, and 
with the years he grew successful 
and popular among his fellow-citi- 
zens. He was married on August 8, 
1867, to Charlotte Budendick; his 
wife died in 1877. He remarried in 
1879 to Frederica Lange, of Yon- 
kers. Mr. Schlobohm is actively 
identified with the Republican 
party and has received many hon- 
ors from his party. He has served 
as an Alderman of Yonkers for 
twelve years, three years of which 
time he served as president of that 
body and acting Mayor, which po- 
sitions he now holds. He has been 
for five years president of the Yon- 
kers Teutonia Singing Society; is 
a prominent Mason, a member of 
Rising Star Lodge, No. 450, F. and 
A. M., during the last twenty-five 
years; is a charter member of Hol- 



salica Lodge, No. 297, D. O. H.; a 
member of the Yonkers Turn-Ve- 
rein; is chairman of the Second 
Ward Republican Club, and mem- 
ber of the Republican City Com- 
mittee; was grand master of Grand 
Lodge of the State of New York of 
the Order of Harugary for 1884-85; 
also grand master of the same order 
for the United States, 1890-92, with 
a membership of 25,000. During the 
civil war Mr. Schlobohm served in 
the United States Navy two years. 



THOMAS SMITH. 

Thomas Smith, editor and pro- 
prietor of the first weekly and daily 
newspaper published in Yonkers, 
Justice of the Peace, etc., was born 
in the city of New York in 1816, the 
son of James and Mary Smith, and 
was of Scotch descent. He attended 
the best schools accessible at that 
time, but the better part of his ed- 
ucation was obtained in the print- 
ing oflBce to which he was appren- 
ticed at an early age. He gave 
much of his leisure hours to study, 
and, being endowed with great nat- 
ural talent, he was not slow to 
learn. When quite young and at an 
age when most boys would desire 
to play, he found recreation in 
reading and solving diflBcult prob- 
lems. As a writer he was both 
forcible and logical. Several years 
before coming to Yonkers he was 
engaged as an editorial writer on 
some of the leading journals of 
New York city. He also was the 
owner of one of the largest job 
printing establishments in the lat- 
ter city, his place of business being 
on Spruce Street. He went to Yon- 
kers in 1852, when the place was 
but an insignificant hamlet. He 
had built for his use the first brick 
building erected on Main Street and 
one of the first in the place, and in 
other ways he endeavored to in- 
spire a boom that might benefit the 
locality. He started the Yonkers 
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lished in the place, immediately af- 
ter his arrival, the publication office 
being located on North Broadway, 
two doors north of Main Street, and 
two doors south of the Broadway 
House, one of the principal hotels 
in the place. He early advocated 
the incorporation of Yonkers as a 
village, personally and through his 
newspaper. At public meetings 
held to consider the proposition he 
was one of the principal speakers 
In favor. Subsequently, when it 
became apparent that the old vil- 
lage hall, on Factory Street (Pali- 
sade Avenue), had outgrown its 
usefulness and something more 
spacious was needed for village 
purposes, Mr. Smith, in 1867, he be- 
ing a Village Trustee at the time, 
proposed that the village purchase 
Manor Hall, then belonging to 
James C. Bell, Esq., and thereby 
accomplish two desirable objects — 
securing the accommodations the 
village needed and at the same time 
properly providing for the care and 
maintenance of one of the most 
illustrious of historic structures in 
this State. His suggestion was 
adopted and the necessary arrange- 
ments for the purchase of the build- 
ing and adjacent land were com- 
menced forthwith. Mr. Smith took 
an active interest in educational 
matters and was a firm advocate 
for good public schools. It was on 
his motion, while a member of the 
Board of Education, that the school 
district first decided to purchase 
books needed by pupils in the 
schools. His idea was to prevent 
children of poor parents from be- 
ing hindered in their studies owing 
to inability to purchase the neces- 
sary class books, and to put all 
pupils of the schools on the same 
footing as to the securing of books. 
In 1858 a Union Free School vras 
established and Mr. Smith was 
elected one of the first Trustees. 
For many years he was president of 
the Board of Education and under 
his administration many modern 
ideas were introduced and perma- 
nent improvements made. Finding 
It impossible to obtain all the ben- 
efits desired by the local Fire De- 
partment, without a more compact 
organization than had hitherto 
been obtained, representatives from 
the various fire companies met on 



July 7, 1858, and organized the Fire 
Department Association, and chose 
Mr. Smith as its first president. He 
was elected a Justice of the Peace 
and held the position sixteen years, 
most of that time presiding over all 
sessions of Justice's Court held in 
that town. As a Judge he was fair 
and just. He did not encourage 
litigation, but prevented it where 
an amicable settlement was possi- 
ble. His kindly disposition attract- 
ed him to every person in need. He 
was charitable beyond his means; 
he dispensed charity with an open 
hand to all and held malice toward 
none, not even to those who en- 
deavored to injure him. He de- 
tested hypocrisy and underdealing 
and did not hesitate in condemn- 
ing its practice on all occasions. He 
was democratic in principle and 
manner of living. He avoided all 
show and ostentation, preferring 
being considered an every-day man. 
He was ever popular with the 
voters, especially with wage earn- 
ers, who recognized no party lines 
when he was a candidate for office. 
They had reason to know that in 
him they had a friend who was not 
Influenced by hopes of making 
money as the result of their confi- 
dence; that he never tired in serv- 
ing their interests, even though 
there was no prospect of reward. 
He was a member of the Fire De- 
partment from the date of its or- 
ganization; he served as a Village 
Trustee for several years, was a 
member of the Town Health Board, 
and in fact held, at different times, 
most of the public offices in his 
town and village. In 1862 he was 
tendered by State Democratic lead- 
ers the nomination of that party 
for Lieutenant-Governor of this 
State, in a year when the nomina- 
tion was equivalent to an election. 
He declined the honor, replying 
that his town was willing to give 
him all the offices he desired to 
hold. He was always an aggres- 
sive Democrat, from his youth up. 
He was several times a delegate to 
National Democratic Conventions 
and regularly was sent as a dele- 
gate to State and local conventions. 
He doubtlessly was one of the best- 
known men in public affairs in 
Westchester County. He died in 
August, 1874. 



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JOHN T. WARING. 

John T. "Waring was born at 
Southeast, Putnam County, Novem- 
ber 7, 1820, and passed his boyhood 
till 1834 with but little experience 
of change at his father's home. 
Meanwhile, in 1828, his brother, 
William C, and Hezekiah Nichols, 
had come down to Yonkers and be- 
gun the hatting business in the 
"Glen," on the spot now taken up 
by Copcutt's Silk Factory. Re- 
verses and changes came over this 
firm and its business during the 
next six years. In the spring of 
1834, however, Mr. William C. 
started upon the same spot the 
new firm of Paddock & Waring. It 
was about the opening of this firm's 
experience that John T. Waring en- 
tered its employ and began to learn 
the hatting business. From 1844 to 
1849 he had business interest in the 
firm. In 1849 he began hatting on 
his own account on "Chicken Isl- 
and." Until 1876 his business ca- 
reer was a growing success. In 1857 
he bought William C.'s factory on 
Elm Street and enlarged it. In 1862 
he built a factory on the opposite 
side of the street. He employed 800 
men and made 800 dozen hats per 
day, and by 1876 the invested cap- 
ital of $45,000 had grown to nearly 
$1,000,000. In 1868 he bought a site 
in North Yonkers and developed 
"Greystone," which cost him nearly 
one-half million dollars. In 1876 
he lost all and "Greystone" came in 
possession of Samuel J. Tilden. In 
1884 Mr. Waring returned to Yon- 



kers, after filling contracts for mak- 
ing hats by convict labor in prisons, 
and bought large property on Vark 
Street, the building once known as 
"Star Arms Works." Mr. Waring 
was told that this building would 
prove much too large for his pur- 
poses, but he thought differently; 
time has proven his judgment cor- 
rect, as recently he had to increase 
his facilities by erecting additional 
buildings. His business gives em- 
ployment to many thousand per- 
sons. Mr. Waring is the inventor 
of valuable hat manufacturing ma- 
chinery. In politics he was a 
staunch Republican and a strong 
supporter of the Union cause dur- 
ing the civil war. In 1861 he was 
elected President of the village of 
Yonkers. In the same year a com- 
pany of 75 men was formed in Yon- 
kers to go to the front, the village 
agreeing to care for their families 
while they were gone. When every- 
thing was in readiness the men re- 
fused to go unless the President of 
the village would be personally re- 
sponsible for their families' wel- 
fare. This responsibility he accept- 
ed, and upon investigation it was 
found that 65 families would have 
to be cared for. John T. Waring 
married Jeannette P., daughter of 
the late Anson Baldwin. Their 
children were Arthur B., Grace 
(married Lewis Roberts), John T. 
Jr., (deceased), John T., Jr., Cor- 
nelia B., Pierce C, Susan B., Anson 
(deceased), James Palmer and 
Janet. He is connected with St. 
John's Episcopal Church and for 
many years has held oflice therein. 




JOHN T. WARING. 




JAMES M. HUNT. 




JOHN G. PEENE. 




JOHN H. SCHLOBOHM. 



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TOWN OF YOKKTOWK 



Yorktown is another of the original towns of the county, hav- 
ing been organized March 7, 1798. Early historians maintain that 
the town was formerly given the Mohegan name "Appamaghpogh." 
The land on which the town is erected is part of a tract purchased 
from the Indian Sachems Pewemind and Oskewans, by Stephanus 
Van Cortlandt, in 1683. 

The town was in the very center of activity during the Ameri- 
can Kevolution, and many a hard-fought battle waged between the 
American and British forces. It is an historical town and the rem- 
iniscences related by its old residents are of a most interesting 
character. 

The great dam of the old Croton Acqueduct is situated in the 
southeast corner of this town. Croton Lake and Mohansic Lake, 
among the prettiest bodies of water in this State, are also within the 
town's borders. 

As a general geographical description of the town, it is men- 
tioned "that the north is broken by the hills of the southern border 
of the Highlands, and the general surface is hilly, though its hills 
are of a moderate height in the south." Numerous springs of water 
run through the town and assist manufacturing. The soil is pro- 
ductive and the town abounds in fine farm lands. Walnut, oak, 
hickory, chestnut, maple, black birch and hemlock trees are quite 
plentiful. The town is rectangular in shape and is the largest as to 
acreage in the county, having 23,620 acres. 

A fair average valuation of land per acre is $64. Last year's 
rate of taxation was $5.64 per $1,000, on assessed valuation. The 
tax rate this year is $4.64 per $1,000. This rate is the lowest of any 
town except Somers. The assessed valuation is: Real, $1,258,617; 
personal, $106,615. 

The town has no indebtedness. Back taxes are collected by 
the Supervisor. Property sold for unpaid taxes is bought in by 
the town. 

The town is situated on the New York and Putnam Eailroad, 
distant 42 miles from New York City. The population, according 
to last census, 1890, was 2,378. 

The churches in the town are: The Presbyterian Church, Rev. 
W. J. Cummings pastor, Yorktown; Hicksite Friends' Meeting 
House, no pastor, Amawalk; Mohansic Methodist Church, Rev. C. 
B. Langdon pastor, Yorktown Heights; Methodist Church, Rev. 



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Henry Sheldon pastor, Lower Yorktown; Episcopal Church, Kitch- 
awan, open in summer. Rev. Dr. Parker Morgan, of New York 
pastor; Yorktown (Orthodox) Friends' Meeting House, Rev. E. L. 
Requa pastor, Yorktown Heights; Methodist Church, Rev. Henry 
Sheldon pastor. Pines Bridge, Croton Lake; Catholic Church, Shrub 
Oak, and St. Peter's Catholic Church, Yorktown Heights, Rev. 
John Mcllvoy pastor; Methodist Church, Rev. John O'Neil pastor. 
Shrub Oak; Episcopal Church, Rev. Cortlandt de Peyster Field, 
pastor. Shrub Oak; St. Catherine's Episcopal Church, at the Field 
Home, was built by the Rev. Cortlandt de Peyster Field, who con- 
ducts the services regularly, and from his own purse pays all ex- 
penses; the Baptist Church edifice, west of Yorktown Station, has 
been unoccupied about seven years. 

The physicians of the town are: Dr. James H. Curry, Dr. H. 
F. Hart and Dr. J. H. Jenkins, of "Shrub Oak; Dr. Chas. Rich and 
Dr. E. Scholderfer, of Yorktown Heights. 

There are no lawyers resident of the town, the town has no 
banking institutions, no newspaper, nor organized police or fire 
departments. 

The postmasters in the town are: Garwood Peet postmaster, 
and Merritt L. Peet assistant, Yorktown Heights; George Palmer 
postmaster, Charles Conklin assistant, Croton Lake; Silas Gregory 
postmaster, Kitchawan; Edmund J. Travis postmaster, Amawalk 
(the building containing this post ofiice was destroyed by fire March 
1, 1898); Miss Minnie Peterson postmistress, Yorktown; Frank Dar- 
row postmaster. Shrub Oak; John W. Birdsall postmaster, Jefferson 
Valley. 

The section composing this town was, up to date of organiza- 
tion, a part of the Manor of Cortlandt. 

The officials of the town for 1897-8 are: Supervisor, Edward 
B. Kear, Yorktown Heights; Town Clerk, George J. Purdy, York- 
town Heights; Justices of the Peace, Richard W. Home, Mohegan, 
James V. Irish, Yorktown Heights; Thomas J. Bushell, Croton 
Lake, Hiram Farrington, Kitchawan; Assessors, Jesse Ryder, Kitch- 
awan, Chauncey D. Griffin, Croton Lake, Albert Lee, Yorktown; 
Collector of Taxes, Leverett H. Baker, Kitchawan. School District 
Collectors— District No. 1, Oscar Odell, Shrub Oak; District No. 2, 
Joseph Pierce, Jefferson Valley; District No. 3, Theodore Purdy, 
Yorktown Heights; District No. 4, Edward Titus, Yorktown; Dis- 
trict No. 5, Edmund Requa, Peekskill; District No. 6, Jacob Ben- 
nett, Yorktown Heights; District No. 7, Henry J. Griffin, Yorktown 
Heights; District No. 8. Fred Reynolds, Croton Lake: District No. 9, 



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Chas. Twiggar, Kitchawan; District No. 13, Wm. Brown, Mohegan, 
joint district. Commissioners of Highways — H. Frost Horton, Sing 
Sing; Constant F. Whitney, Yorktown Heights; Peter B. Curry, 
Jefferson Valley. The road tax is worked out by districts, each 
taxpayer is assessed one day for each $500 of his assessment. The 
Supervisor, Justices of the Peace and Town Clerk compose the 
Board of Town Auditors; the same officers, with citizen George J. 
Griffin, form the Town Health Board. Dr. E. Scholderfer, Town 
Health Officer. 

School Trustees — District No. 1, Kobert L. Knapp, Shrub Oak; 
District No. 2, Oscar C. Barger, Jefferson Valley; District No. 3, 
Henry C. Kear, Yorktown Heights; District No. 4, Ira D. Strang, 
Nathaniel C. Strang, Yorktown; District No. 5, Stephen L. Hart, 
Field Home, Peekskill; District No. 6, Charles I. Purdy, Yorktown 
Heights; District No. 7, Chauncey D. Griffin, Croton Lake; District 
No. 8, John Eeynolds, Charles Crawford and Daniel Birdsall, Croton 
Lake; District No. 9, Chas. Halstead, Sing Sing. 

The town's population, as shown by census enumerations of 
several years was: In 1830, 2,141; in 1835, 2,212; in 1840, 2,819; 
in 1845, 2,278; in 1850, 2,273; in 1855, 2,415; in 1860, 2,487; in 
1865, 2,198; in 1870, 1,996; in 1875, 1,961; in 1880, 1,818; in 
1890, 1,475. 



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GOVERNOES OF THE STATE. 



George Clinton, Ulster County, elected in 1777. 

John Jay, New York city, elected in 1795. 

George Clinton, Ulster County, elected in 1801. 

Morgan Lewis, Dutchess County, elected in 1804. 

Daniel D. Tompkins, Eichmond County, elected in 1807. 

John Tayler, Albany, elected in 1817. 

De Witt Clinton, New York city, elected in 1817. 

Joseph C. Yates, Schenectady, elected in 1822. 

De Witt Clinton, New York city, elected in 1824. 

Nathaniel Pitcher, Sandy Hill, elected in 1828. 

Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, elected in 1828. 

Enos T. Throop, Auburn, elected in 1829. 

William L. Marcy, Troy, elected in 1832. 

William H. Seward, Auburn, elected in 1838. 

William C. Bouck, Fultonham, elected in 1842. 

Silas Wright, Canton, elected in 1844. 

John Young, Geneseo, elected in 1846. 

Hamilton Fish, New York city, elected in 1848. 

Wasliington Hunt, Lockport, elected in 1850. 

Horatio Sejonour, Deerfield, elected in 1852. 

Myron H. Clark, Canandaigua, elected in 1854. 

John A. King, Queens County, elected in 1856. 

Edwin D. Morgan, New York city, elected in 1858. 

Horatio Seymour, Deerfield, elected in 1862. 

Eeuben E. Fenton, Frewsburgh, elected in 1864. 

John T. Hoffman, New York city, elected in 1868. 

John A. Dix, New York city, elected in 1872. 

Samuel J. Tilden, New York city, elected in 1874. 

Lucius Eobinson, Elmira, elected in 1876. 

Alonzo B. Cornell, New York city, elected in 1879. 

Grover Cleveland, Buffalo, elected in 1882. 

David B. Hill, Elmira, elected in 1885. 

Eoswell P. Flower, Watertown, elected in 1891. 

Levi P. Morton, Ehinecliff, elected in 1894. 

Frank S. Black, Troy, elected in 1896. 



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PEESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



George Washington, of Virginia, bom Feb. 22, 1732; first inau- 
gurated April 30, 1789, served two terms, refused a third; died Dec. 
12, 1799. 

John Adams, .of Massachusetts, bom Oct. 30, 1735; inaugu- 
rated March 4, 1797, served one term; died July 4, 1826. 

Thomas JefEerson, of Virginia, born April 2, 1743; inaugurated 
March 4, 1801, served two terms; died two hours before John 
Adams, July 4, 1826. 

James Madison, of Virginia, bom March 5, 1751; inaugurated 
March 4, 1809, served two terms; died June 28, 1836. 

James Monroe, of Virginia, bom April 28, 1758; inaugurated 
March 4, 1817, served two terms; died July 4, 1831. 

John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, born July 11, 1767; in- 
augurated March 4, 1825, served one term; died Feb. 21, 1848; was 
stricken with paralysis on the floor of Congress and died in the 
Capitol. 

Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, bom March 15, 1767; inaugu- 
rated March 4, 1829, served two terms; died June 8, 1845. 

Martin Van Buren, of New York, bom Dec. 5, 1782; inaugu- 
rated March 4, 1837, served one term; died July 24, 1862. 

William H. Harrison, of Ohio, born Feb. 9, 1773; inaugurated 
March 4, 1841, died one month after becoming President. 

John Tyler, of Virginia, bom March 29, 1790; Vice-President, 
inaugurated April 4, 1841; served out the term of President Har- 
rison; died Jan. 18, 1862. 

John Knox Polk, of Tennessee, born Nov. 2, 1795; inaugurated 
March 4, 1845, served one term; died of cholera, June 18, 1849. 

Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana, born Nov. 24, 1784; inaugurated 
March 5, 1849; after serving as President one year and four months 
he died July 9, 1850. 

Millard Filmore, of New York, born Jan. 7, 1800; Vice-Presi- 
dent, became President July 9, 1850, and served out President Tay- 
lor's term. 

Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, bom Nov. 23, 1804; inau- 
gurated March 4, 1853; served one term; died Oct. 1, 1869. 

James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, bom April 23, 1791; inau- 
gurated March 4, 1857, served one term; died June 1, 1868. 



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Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, born Feb. 12, 1809; inaugurated 
March 4, 1861; elected for two terms; was assassinated April 14, 
1865, and died next day. 

Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, born Dec. 29, 1808; Vice-Pres- 
ident, inaugurated April 15, 1865, and served out President Lin- 
coln's term; died July 31, 1875. 

Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, born April 29, 1822; inaugurated 
March 4, 1869, served two terms; died July 23, 1885. 

Eutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, bom Oct. 4, 1822; inaugurated 
March 5, 1877, served one term; died Jan., 1893. 

James A. Garfield, of Ohio, born Nov. 19, 1831; inaugurated 
March 4, 1881; July 2, 1881, he was shot in the Baltimore Railroad 
Station at Washington, and died Sept. 19, 1881. 

Chester A. Arthur, of New York, bom Oct. 17, 1830; Vice- 
President, was inaugurated President Sept. 20, 1881, and served 
out the term of President Garfield; died Nov. 18, 1886. 

Grover Cleveland, of New York, born March 18, 1837; was in- 
augurated, first term March 4, 1885, second term March 4, 1893; 
still living. 

Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, bom Aug. 30, 1833; inaugu- 
rated March 4, 1889, served one term; still living. 

William McKinley, of Ohio, born Jan. 29, 1843; inaugurated 
March 4, 1897; now in office. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



John Adams, Massachusetts, inaugurated 1789-93. 
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, inaugurated 1797. 
Aaron Burr, New York, inaugurated 1801. 
George Clinton, New York, inaugurated 1805-9. 
Eldridge Gerry, Massachusetts, inaugurated 1813. 
Daniel D. Tompkins, New York, inaugurated 1817-21. 
John C. Calhoun, South Carolina, inaugurated 1825-29. 
Martin Van Buren, New York, inaugurated 1833. 
Richard M. Johnson, Kentucky, inaugurated 1837; the only 
Vice-President ever elected by the Senate. 
John Tyler, Virginia, inaugurated 1841. 
George MiflSin Dallas, Pennsylvania, inaugurated 1845. 
Millard Filmore, New York, inaugurated 1849. 



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William E. King, Alabama, inaugurated 1853; died one month 
and fourteen days after taking office; office vacant remainder of 
term. 

John C. Breckenridge, Kentucky, inaugurated 1857. 

Hannibal Hamlin, Maine, inaugurated 1861. 

Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, inaug-urated 1865. 

Samuel Colfax, Indiana, inaugurated 1869. 

Henry Wilson, Massachusetts, inaugurated 1873; died in office 
Nov. 22, 1876. 

WiUiam A. Wheeler, New York, inaugurated 1877. 

Chester A. Arthur, New York, inaugurated 1881. 

Thomas A. Hendricks, Indiana, inaugurated 1885; died in office 
Nov. 22, 1885. 

Levi P. Mrrton, New York, inaugurated 1889. 

Adlai E. Stevenson, Illinois, inaugurated 1893. 

Garret A. Hobart, New Jersey, inaugurated 1897. 

The following Presidents pro tem. of the Senate, acted as Vice- 
Presidents, in the year given, vacancies in the office of Vice-Presi- 
dents being caused by death: 

Samuel L. Southard, New Jersey, 1842. 

William R. King, Alabama, 1851. 

David E. Atchison, Missouri, 1853. 

Jesse B. Bright, Indiana, 1855. 

Lafayette C. Foster, Connecticut, 1865. 

Thomas W. Ferry, Michigan, 1875. 

John Sherman, Ohio, 1886. 



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ITEMS OF INTEREST. 



Section 33 of the Election Law makes personal registration a 
prerequisite to voting in "cities and villages having 5,000 inhabit- 
ants or more." 

St. John's College, at Fordham, was incorporated by act of the 
Legislature passed April 10, 1846. 

Woodlawn Cemetery organized under act of April 27, 1847, 
was incorporated by act of the Legislature passed April 23, 1864. 

The Legislature of 1898 adjourned finally on April 31. 

Under the State Constitution no State officers are to be elected 
by the people next year, 1899. 

The last Legislature passed a bill authorizing the expenditure 
of $30,000 for improvements at Sing Sing prison . 

The Good Roads bill passed by the last Legislature divides the 
cost of building roads between the State, the counties and the tax- 
payers benefited. 

The money appropriated by the Legislature as a war fund does 
not figure in the State tax rate. The amount used will be levied as 
a separate tax. 

The last Legislature passed a bill authorizing the Governor to 
appoint a commission to look into the causes of New York's loss of 
commerce and suggest a remedy. Alexander Smith, of New Ro- 
chelle, this county, was appointed one of the Commissioners. 

The act authorizing the construction of the Hudson River Rail- 
road, from New York to Albany, was passed by the Legislature May 
12, 1846. Aaron Ward and Fortune 0. White, of Westchester 
County, were named in the act among those composing the first 
Board of Directors of the railroad company. 

An amendment to the Constitution authorizing biennial ses- 
sions of the Legislature was adopted by the last Legislature. If 
passed by the Legislature of 1899 it will come before the people at 
the election that year, and, if approved, will go into effect in 1902. 
It lengthens the terms of State Senators to four years and those of 
Assemblymen to two years, and decreases their yearly compensation 
from $1,500 to $1,000. 



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MEMORABLE EVENTS. 



September 16, 1609 — The Hudson Kiver was discovered. 

January 9, 1614 — Settlement of New Amsterdam by the Dutch. 

December 11, 1620 — The Pilgrims landed. 

February 25, 1643 — Indians massacred by the Dutch on Man- 
hattan Island. 

February 26, 1644 — Indians defeated by the Dutch in West- 
chester County. 

February 2, 1653 — New York City incorporated. 

August 16, 1654 — Onondaga Salt Springs discovered. 

August, 1658 — So much sickness prevailed in the State that 
the harvests in some sections remained uncut through inability 
to reap it. 

February 5, 1663 — The shock of an earthquake was felt in the 
county; later earthquakes were on Oct. 9 and 29, 1727; Nov. 18, 
1755; March 12, 1761; Nov. 29, 1783, and Jan. 25, 1841. 

September 8, 1664 — New Amsterdam surrenders to the Eng- 
lish, who renamed it New York. 

December 9, 1680 — Comet appears. 

November 1, 1683 — Westchester County erected. 

March 25, 1693 — Printing ordered to be introduced into New 
York. 

February 5, 1694 — Bradford, the first New York printer, geta 
paid for printing his first book. 

September 2, 1701 — Court of Chancery established. 

April 24, 1704 — The first newspaper is published in America. 

January 17, 1706 — Benjamin Franklin born; died April 17, 
1790. 

June 8, 1709 — Bills of credit, or paper money, first authorized 
by law. 

August 30, 1718— William Penn died; bom Oct. 14, 1644. 

October 16, 1725 — First newspaper published in New York. 

April 22, 1730— Public Library in New York founded. 

May 14, 1731 — Boundary line between the State of New York 
and the State of Connecticut established. 

March 8, 1738 — Bishop Wesley comes to America. 

December 1, 1745 — John Jay was bom; died at Bedford, in 
this county, June 17, 1829. 



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July 8, 1752— Liberty Bell at Philadelphia first rung. 

August 23, 1756 — First stone of Columbia College was laid. 

January 18, 1771 — The battle of Kingsbridge was fought. 

May 18, 1773 — Boundary line between the State of New York 
and the State of Massachusetts established. 

December 16, 1773— Boston Tea Party. 

November 6, 1774 — Boundary line between the State of New 
York and the State of New Jersey settled. 

June 16, 1775— Battle of Bunker Hill. 

July 4, 1776 — The Declaration of Independence was signed at 
Philadelphia. 

August 22, 1776— The British landed on Long Island; the 
battle of Long Island was fought August 27. 

September 15, 1776 — Washington evacuates New York City. 

September 16, 1776— Battle of Harlem Plains. 

October 28, 1776— The Battle of White Plains was fought. .. 

March 23, 1777— The British take possession of Peekskill. 

April 2, 1743 — Thomas Jefferson born. 

April 20, 1777— The first State Constitution was adopted. 

June 20, 1777— United States Flag adopted. 

September 23, 1780 — Major Andre was captured at Tarrytown 
and executed Oct. 2, 1780. 

May 12, 1781 — Fort Schuyler was burned. 

November 30, 1782 — Kevolutionary War ends. 

September 23, 1783— Peace with Great Britain. 

November 25, 1783— The British evacuated New York City. 

December 5, 1783 — Washington takes leave of his army. 

January 4, 1784 — Treaty of peace ratified by Congress. 

April 17, 1784 — Universal Religious Equality enacted by a 
special law. 

January, 1785 — John Adams, first Ambassador to England. 

April 3, 1787— Board of State Eegents established. 

April, 1789 — George Washington elected first President. 

April, 1792 — Washington City chosen as the Capital of the 
United States. 

February 19, 1795 — First National Thanksgiving Day. 

April 9, 1795 — Act passed for the encouragement and main- 
tenance of public schools. 

January 2, 1798 — The State Legislature decides to hold its an- 
nual sessions in Albany. 

February 23, 1798 — Rockland County was erected. 

April, 1800 — The government removed to Washington. 



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July 11, 1804 — Alexander Hamilton killed in a duel by Aaron 
Burr. 

October 1, 1807— First steamboat taken to Albany by Fulton. 

June 12, 1812 — Putnam County was erected. 

June 18, 1812 — War declared against Great Britain. 

January 8, 1815 — Battle of New Orleans was fought. 

November 5, 1816 — Gouverneur Morris, of this county, died. 

March 31, 1817 — It was decided that slavery be abolished in 
this State in ten years. 

July 4, 1817 — Ground was broken for the Erie Canal. 

April 21, 1818— The State Library was estabhshed. 

August 24, 1818 — Foundation laid for new Capitol building at 
WaBhington. 

August 15, 1824 — Lafayette revisits the United States. 

April, 1825 — Andrew Jackson elected President. 

May 15, 1826— The erection of Sing Sing State Prison was 
commenced. 

July 4, 1826— Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 

July 4, 1827 — Slavery was abolished in this State, 

March 4, 1829 — Andrew Jackson inaugurated President. 

April 18, 1830 — Manors were created in this county. 

April 26, 1831 — Imprisonment for debt was abolished in the 
State. 

June 27, 1832— Cholera appeared in New York City. 

September 26, 1832 — New York University organized. 

July 16, 1833— Corner-stone of the New York University 
building was laid. 

May 20, 1834— Lafayette died. 

July 10, 1834— Abolition riots in New York City. 

November 7, 1835 — Work on the construction of the Erie Rail- 
road commenced. 

October 26, 1837— The Harlem Eailroad completed. 

April 18, 1838 — The General Banking Law enacted. 

October 14, 1842— The Croton Water Works finished. 

June, 1845 — War with Mexico declared. 

July 29, 1848 — Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge completed. 

July, 1848 — Peace declared with Mexico. 

December, 1848 — Cholera appeared in New York; again in 
1853, in 1866 and in 1873. 

October 1, 1849 — Hudson River Railroad opened to Peekskill; 
opened to Poughkeepsie Dec. 31, same year. 



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November 5, 1850 — Free schools sustained by a majority of 25,- 
005, at a State election. 

December 24, 1851 — Congressional library at Washington de- 
Btroyed by fire. 

March 31, 1850— John C. Calhoun died; bom March 18, 1782. 

June 29, 1852— Henry Clay died; born April 12, 1777. 

October 24, 1852— Daniel Webster died. 

August 28, 1858 — First cable message. 

February 26, 1859 — General Sickles tried for shooting Keys 
and acquitted. 

November 28, 1859 — Washington Irving died at his home in 
Tarry town. 

October 11, 1860 — Prince of Wales arrived in New York. 

December 20, 1860— South Carolina first State of the Union to 
eecede. 

March 4, 1861 — Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President. 

April 12, 1861— Fort Sumter bombarded. 

April 15, 1861 — First call for troops. 

July 21, 1861— First battle of Bull Kun. 

July 24, 1861— Martin Van Buren died; bom Dec. 5, 1782. 

November 1, 1861 — General Scott resigns command of the 
army; succeeded by General McClellan. 

November 8, 1861 — Mason and Slidell seized. 

March 9, 1862 — The Monitor destroys the Merrimac. 

September 29, 1862— Draft in New York. 

January 1, 1863 — Emancipation Proclamation of President 
Lincoln goes into effect. 

July 13, 14, 15, 1863— Anti-draft riots in New York city. 

December 8, 1863 — President Lincoln issues Amnesty Proc- 
lamation. 

February 1, 1864— Draft of 500,000 men ordered. 

March 12, 1864 — Gen. U. S. Grant made commander of the 
United States Army. 

March 15, 1864— President calls for 200,000 men. 

November 14, 1864 — Sherman's march to the sea. 

April 9, 1865 — General Lee surrenders. 

April 14, 1865 — President Lincoln shot; died April 15; bom 
February 12, 1809. 

April 15, 1865 — Vice-President Johnson becomes President. 

May 10, 1865— President Davis (S. C), with part of his Cabinet 
captured. 

May 29, 1865 — President Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 277 

July 7, 1865 — Mrs. Sunatt and others hanged. 

May 29, 1866— Death of Gen. Winfield Scott. 

May, 1868 — Impeachment, trial and acquittal of President 
Johnson. 

November, 1868 — Gen. U. S. Grant elected President. 

August 14, 1870 — Admiral Farragut died. 

October 8, 1870 — Great fire in Chicago; 17,450 buildings de- 
stroyed; loss about $196,000,000. 

October 12, 1870— Gen. Robert E. Lee died. 

January, 1872 — Congress removes political disabihties of 
Southern people. 

October, 1872— Ex-Gov. W. H. Seward died; bom May 16, 
1801. 

November 9, 1872— Great fire in Boston; loss $75,000,000. 

April 10, 1873 — Modoc Indian Massacre. 

July 14, 1874 — Second Chicago fire. 

July 31, 1875 — Ex-President Andrew Johnson dies. 

June 25, 1876— Gen. Custer killed by Indians. 

July 2, 1881 — President Garfield shot; died Sept. 19, same 
year; born Nov. 19, 1831. 

March 24, 1882— Longfellow died; born Feb. 27, 1807. 

May 24, 1883 — Brooklyn Bridge opened. 

March 12, 1888— The big snow blizzard. 



378 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



HISTORICAL NOTES. 



The originating of circulating libraries is credited to the wis- 
dom of Benjamin Franklin. 

Lewis Morris, of Westchester, was one of the four representa- 
tives from this State who signed the Declaration of Independence, 
at Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. 

Charles B. Eouss has offered to present to the City of New 
York a duplicate statue of the one presented to Paris, representing 
Washington and Lafayette grasping hands. 

Harvard College was established in 1638 and named in honor 
of its first benefactor, Eev. John Harvard, who died in that year, 
leaving his library and eight hundred pounds sterling to assist a pro- 
posed college. 

George W. Ferris,, the inventor and constructor of the great 
Ferris Wheel, exhibited at the World's Fair at Chicago, died penni- 
less. The body was cremated, but a Pittsburg undertaker refuses 
to give up the ashes until the funeral expenses are paid. 

Yale College was established at New Haven in 1718. It was 
named in honor of Elihu Yale, a gentleman of English parentage 
who was born in New Haven, and who proved a munificent patron 
of the college. Elihu Yale died, at the age of 73 years, in 1721. 

Miss Frances E. Willard, President of the World's Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union, died in New York City on Feb. 18, 
1898, aged 59 years. She was bom at Churchville, N. Y., but at 
the age of three was taken by her parents to reside at Oberlin, Ohio. 
She first appeared prominent when elected, in 1878, President of 
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Illinois. She then 
resided at Evanston, 111,, where she was buried. 

William Ewart Gladstone, who was bom at Liverpool, England, 
on Dec. 29, 1809, died on May 19, 1898. The English Parliament 
voted a public funeral and monimient in his honor. The only pre- 
cedents for Parliament voting funerals and monuments are the cases 
of Chatham, in 1778, and Pitt, in 1806. 

Hiram W. Sibley, of Rochester, recently presented to Cornell 
University for preservation in the museum of the Sibley College of 
Mechanical Engineering an interesting reHc. It is the original tele- 
graph receiver on which was taken the first message over Morse's 
line from Baltimore to Washington. Cornell is an appropriate re- 
pository for this old instrument, since Ezra Cornell (a native of 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 279 

Westchester Coimty) put up that first telegraph line, and made out 
of subsequent lines the money with which he afterward endowed 
the university. 

On March 15, one hundred and tliirty-one years ago, a boy was 
born in a log cabin. As a major-general that boy defeated the 
British at New Orleans on Jan, 8, 1815. The same boy, then in 
command of the Department of the South, followed the Creek In- 
dians, who were murdering Americans, into the Spanish province of 
West Florida. There the Creeks joined the Seminoles, and, secretly 
aided by the Spaniards, the butchering of helpless Americans was 
continued. Then this boy, with his troops, swept Spanish territory 
and crushed the Indians and dismayed the Spaniards. In 1828 the 
boy was made President of tliis United States, and was re-elected 
in 1832. He was Andrew Jackson, or "Old Hickory.'' 

The first uprising of the Cubans, in their present strife against 
Spain, took place Feb. 24, 1895. Gomez, Garcia and others of the 
insurgent military leaders, met in Key West and formulated their 
plans of operation. 

The United States warship Maine, on the night of February 
15, 1898, was destroyed in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, by an explo- 
sion. Persons on board, to the number of 248, were killed. Cause 
of the explosion unknown. An investigation, conducted by a Court 
of Inquiry, appointed by the United States, was ordered, to ascer- 
tain whether the explosion was caused by an accident or by design 
of enemies. 

The war between the United States and Spain was declared 
April 21, 1898. 

On May 1, 1898, the battle of Manila was fought. 

On June 4, 1898, Lieutenant E. P. Hobson sank the Merrimac 
across the channel at the entrance to the bay of Santiago de Cuba. 

On July 1, 1898, Cervera's Spanish fleet was destroyed while 
attempting to escape from the bay of Santiago de Cuba. 

On July 3, 1898, the battle of Santiago de Cuba was fought; 
the city surrendered to the United States forces. 

On August 12, 1898, the Peace Protocol was signed by rep- 
resentatives of the United States and Spain. President McKinley 
for the former and the French Ambassador for the latter. 

The War Department at Washington reports that the recent 
war between the United States and Spain has cost the United 
States 2,910 lives out of a total force of 274,717 officers and men, 
a percentage of 1.059. The killed were, 23 officers, 257 men; died 
of wounds, officers 4, men 61; died of disease, 80 officers, 2,485 men. 



380 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



PRACTICING LAWYERS 

Resident of Westchester County. 



BEDFORD. 

Emory T. Clocke. 
G. D. W. Clocke. 

BEDFORD STATION. 
Charles Haines. 
John B. Robinson. 

BRONX VILLE. 

Charles F. Bajtes. 
James F. Horan. 
Walter L. McCtorkle. 
Alfred E. Smitli. 

OHAPPAQUA 

Elliott Williams. 
R. H. Williams. 

DOBBS FERRY. 

Frederick All is. 
Wilder S. BufEun. 
Charles P. McClelland. 
Louis F. Murray. 

HARRISON, 

William Porter Allen. 
S. W. Collins. 

HASTINGS. 

Melvin G. Pallisser. 

HARTSDALE. 

Willard P. Butler. 
A. B. Crane. 
Alonzo J. Hart. 

KATONAH. 

Henry R. Barrett. 
William H. Robertson, 

LAKE MAHOPAC. 

Monmouth S. Buckbee. 



MAMARO'NECK. 

Edward F. Delancy. 
W. E. Delancy. 
Joshua M. Fiero. 
George Gardiner Fry. 
William S. Johnson. 
Moirris F. Kane. 
Jacob Halsitead. 
Burton C. Meighan. 
Rawson L Smith. 

MOUNT KISCO. 

A. J. Adams. 
Joseph C. Cirane. 
Reginald Hart. 
E. Clairence Hyatt. 
Harrison J. Slosson. 

MOUNT VERNON. 

Walter T. Allerton. 
Howard Allison. 
George C. AppelL 
H. J. Appell. 
Eugene Archer. 
Rolland B. Archer. 
Richard M. J. Armstrong. 
Cotton W. Bean. 
J. Mortimer Bell. 
John J. Becker. 
Frank A. Bennett. 
Charles C. Bigelow. 
Edgar K. Brown. 
Frank M. Buck. 

E. J. Cadwell. 
Albert L. Cohn. 
William L. Conklin. 
George B. Crawford. 
Charles Demond. 

F. H. Denman. 
W. N. Denman. 
J. A. Du Mont. 

1 B. D. Eisler. 



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281 



Arthur Flirber. 
Edward Foggin. 
Louis L. Ford. 
William F. Gay. 
Albert F. Gescheidt, Jr. 
Frank N. Glover. 
John M. Gorham. 
Edward Hartley, 
Horace Hollister. 
John Colgate Hoyt. 
David H. Hunt. 
J. A. Hudson. 
George W. Hunt. 
Herbert T. Jennings. 
Arthur M. Johnson. 
Frank C. Kingsland. 
William D. Landray. 
Herbert D. Lent. 
Charles H. Lovett. 
Addison J. Lyon. 
James G. McClelland. 
Daniel McKeever. 
John C. McNeilly. 
W. S. McPheeters. 
William B. Magrath. 
William J. Marshall. 
William H. Millard. 
Isaac N. Mills. 
Harry V. Morgan. 
A. Livingston Norman. 
Charles H. Ostrander. 
H. M. Parr. 
Robert D. Paskett. 
Adam Pearson. 
William H. Pemberton. 
William W. Penfield. 
Greorge W. Perkins. 
Rodman F. Pugh. 
Hugh Reavey. 
Julian G. Roberts. 
Jared Sandford. 
Adam E. Schatz. 
Roger M. Sherman. 
James M. Simpson. 
Elmer P. Smith. 
Samuel B. Smith. 
Stephen W. Stillwell. 
David Swits. 
Frank M. Tichenor. 
Charles Vander Roest. 
John A. White. 
Milo J. White. 
Odle J. Whitlock. 
David O. Williams. 
Joseph S. Wood. 



NEW ROCHELLE. 

Lincoln G. Backus. 
Charles G. Banks. 
Richard V. Boyd. 
John W. Boothby. 
Joseph T. Brown, Jr. 
Herbert S. Carpenter. 
Charles D. Burrill. 
George L. Carlisle. 
Arthur L. Clark. 
Quinton Cbrwine. 
Frederick Cowdrey. 
S. F. cowdrey. 
John J. Crennan. 
C. Temple Emmet. 
Richard S. Emmet. 
William T. Emmet 
W. B. Greeley. 
J. A. S. Gregg. 
Francis Griffin. 
Hugh M. Harmer. 
H. A. Harold. 
Henry C. Henderson. 
John Holden. 
Cornelius E. Kene. 
Martin J. Keogh. 
William J. Lacey. 
John F Lambden. 
N. D. Lawton. 
W. S. Lamberton. 
C. H. Noxon. 
P. E. O'Connor. 
J. Harrison Power. 
R. Mackinley Power. 
Timothy Power. 
John E. Risley. 
Charles H. Roosevelt. 
Elbert C. Roosevelt. 
Frederick H. Seacord. 
Samuel F. Swinburne. 
Michael J. Tierney. 
Walter L. Thompson. 
John A. Van Zelm. 
Arthur E. Walradt. 
Louis Wertheimer. 
Charles H. Young. 
J. Addison Young. 

PEEKSKILL. 

Alban H. Anderson. 
William M. Barton. 
Henry W. Bates. 
Nathan P. Bushnell. 
John H. Baxter. 



282 MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 


Owen T. Cbffin. 


SCARBOROUGH. 


Franklin Couch. 


Charles T. Titus. 


Leverett F. Crumb. 




James Dempsey. 


SHRUB OAK. 


S. Loder Fowler. 


John C. Darrow. 


Clinton F. Ferris. 


SING SING. 


Clarence H. Frost. 




Elihu B. Frost. 


Nelson H. Baker. 


Thomas D. Husted. 


Stuart Baker. 


James W. Husted. 


Benjamin Fagan. 


Edward G. Halsey. 


John Gibney. 


Dwight S. Herrick. 


Francis Larkin. 


Cyrus W. Horton. 
Elbert P. James. 


Francis Larkin, Jr. 
Smith Lent. 


William N. Johnson. 


Henry C. Nelson. 


Sanford R. Knapp. 
Stephen Lent. 
Robert McCord. 


Cornelius B, Palmer. 
Milton C. Palmer. 
Pierre Reynolds. 


Frank Manser. 
Silas J. Owens. 
Charles C. Paulding. 
Charles F. Smith. 
Marvin R. Smith. 
John J. Torpey. 
David W. Travis. 


Edgar L. Ryder. 
L. W. Searle. 
J. M. Terwilliger. 
A. S. Underbill. 
William G. Valentine. 
Samuel Watson. 
Frank L. Young. 


Eugene B. Travis. 


SOMERS. 


Charles N. Wells. 


E. C. Neil. 


Edward Wells, Jr. 




PET .HAM. 


TARRYTOWN. 


F. H. Ernst. 


George C. Andrews. 


Ben L. Fairohild. 


J. E. Carpenter. 


Henry W. Taft. 


Charles A. Clapp. 




C. S. Davison. 


PELHAM MANOR. 


W. H. H. Ely. 


Henry G. K. Heath. 


William H. Gibson. 


Jabish Holmes, Jr. 


Henry C. Griffin. 


John Hunter, Jr. 


James T. Law. 


PLEASANTVILLE. 


John P. Lee. 
Alonzo Leonard. 


Daniel P. Hays. 


Edward T. Lovatt. 


PORT CHESTER. 


Oliver H. P. Merritt. 


John H .Clapp. 


Joseph W. Middlebrook. 


Maurice Dillon. 


Frank V. Millard. 


Daniel Haight. 


C. D. Millard. 


Hanford M. Henderson. 


Harold E. Spencer. 


Noah Loder, Jr. 


William J. Townsend. 


De Witt H. Lyon. 


PYederick E. Weeks. 


J. Alvord Peck. 


NORTH TARRYTOWN. 


George A. Slater. 


Cyrus A. Bishop. 


RYE. 


William G. Given. 


Charles P. Cowles. 


Howard H. Morse. 


Justus A. B. Cowles. 


John Webber. 


David B. Porter. 


John Webber, Jr. 


Frederick W. Sherman. 


Morris Webber. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



TUCKAHOE. 


YONKERS. 


William H. Clopton. 


John W. Alexander, 


Herbert D. Lent. 


Astley T. Atkins. 




Henry Archibald. 


WHITE PLAINS. 


Fisher A. Baker. 


George H. Baldwin. 


Isadore J. Beaudrias. 
John F. Brennan. 


Frederic S. Bamum. 


Arthur J. Burns. 


August C. Beyer. 


William Allen Butler. 


William Reynolds Brown. 


William Allen Butler, Jr. 


Wilson Brown, Jr. 


Thomas F. Curran. 




James Cuddy. 


Monmouth S. Buckbee. 


Joseph F. Daly. 


George T. Capron. 


John C. Donohue, Jr. 


Frederick W. Clark. 


Francis X. Donoghue, 


John M. Digney. 


Charles P. Easton. 


William M. du Bois. 


Hampton D. Ewing. 
Morris P. Ferris. 


Henry T. Dykman. 


John H. Ferguson. 


Charles A. Dryer. 


Theodore Fitch. 


Robert E. Farley. 


Hedding S. Fitch. 


William P Fiero. 


James S. Fitch. 


H. P. Griffin. 


John T. Geary. 
Robert P. Getty, Jr. 


Charles Haines. 


G. V. B. Getty. 


Charles D. Horton. 


Charles E. Gorton. 


T. D. & J. W. Husted. 


John C. Harrigan. 


J. M. Hunt & A. E. Smith. 


David Hawley. 
James M. Hunt. 


James B. Lockwood. 


Edgar Logan. 


Stephen S. Marshall. 


F. W. Holls. 


James H. Moran. 


William McAdoo. 


Arthur C. Palmer. 


Waldo G. Morse. 


Hiram Paulding. 


Cyrus A. Peake. 
Adrian M. Potter. 


Lewis C. Piatt. 


Ralph Earl Prime. 


William P. Piatt. 


Ralph E. Prime. 


Robertson & Barrett. 


Alan son J. Prime. 


William Romer. 


William C. Prime. 


Minott M. Silliman. 


Gabriel Reevs. 


William M. Skinner. 


William Riley. 


Ebenezer H. P. Squire. 


Henry J. Rowan. 


Ffarrington M. Thompson. 


James P. Sanders. 


Irving N. Tompkins. 


W. W. Scrugham. 


F. B. Van Kleeck, Jr. 


Theodore H. Silkman. 


David Verplanck. 


John C. Small. 


S. L. H. Ward. 


Duncan Smith. 


Charles Wesley. 


Stephen H. Thayer. 


William A. Woodworth. 


Stephen F. Thayer. 


James D. Wright. 


L. A. Willis. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Names that Appear in the County's 

CIVIL LIST. 



Abeodrotli, William P., Port Ches- 
ter, (see biography). 

Adams, William, Bedford, Assem- 
blyman, 1798-99. 

Anderson, Jeremiah, Harrison, As- 
semblyman, 1825 ; Elector, 
1825. 

Anderson, Joseph H., Harrison, As- 
semblyman, 1833-34; Sheriff, 
1835-38; Congressman, 1846-47. 

Andrews, George C, Tarrytown, 
(see biography.) 

Apgar, Joseph A., Peekskill, Coron- 
er, (died in office). 

Apgar, Charles S., Peekskill, Coro- 
ner. 

Archer, Henry B., Yonkers, Reg- 
ister; Excise Commissioner; 
Receiver or Taxes. 

Baird, Edward P., Yonkers, City 
Judge, 1872 to 1880. 

Baker, Nelson H., Sing Sing, Super- 
visor; District Attorney. 

Banks, Charles G., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Banning, Dr. Archibald T., Mount 
Vernon, Coroner. 

Bard, James M., Pleasantville, Reg- 
ister, (died in office). 

Barker, Benjamin, Scarsdale, As- 
semblyman, 1807. 

Barker, John, Scarsdale, Assembly- 
man, 1798. 

Barker, William, Scarsdale, Assem- 
blyman, 1808-9-10-12-13. 

Barrett, Edward N., Bedford, 
School Commissioner. 

Barrett, Joseph, Bedford, School 
Commissioner. 

Barrett, William G., Bedford, School 
Commissioner. 

Barretto, Francis, West Farms, As- 
semblyman, 1838. 

Barstow, John, Pelham, County 
Clerk. 1760 to 1777. 



Barton, John, Westchester, Surro- 
gate, 1754 to 1761. 

Bates, James M., Bedford, Sheriff, 
1846. 

Bates, John S., Bedford, District 
Attorney, 1866; School Com- 
missioner. 

Bates, Nehemiah S. Bedford, County 
Clerk, 1821 to 1828. 

Baxter, Charles M., Mamaroneck, 
(see biography), 

Bayles, Nathaniel, Tarrytown, 
County Clerk, 1828 to 1834. 

Beers, James E., Port Chester, As- 
semblyman, 1847. 

Bell, J. Harvey, Yonkers, Mayor, 
1886 to 1890. 

Benedict, Joseph, Tarrytown, As- 
semblyman, 1778. 

Benedict, Theodore H., Tarrytown, 
Assemblyman, 1851. 

Bession, John, Dobbs Perry, (see bi- 
ography). 

Bigelow, Charles C, Mt. Vernon, 

Bills, Orrin A., Yonkers, Assem- 
blyman, 1866. 

Birch, Dr. Charles E., White Plains, 
Coroner, (see biography). 

Bird, Seth, Tarrytown, (see bi- 
raphy). 

Bird, James, Tarrytown, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Bleakley, William, Cortlandt, Su- 
pervisor; Sheriff. 

Bowne, Thomas, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1795. 

Boyd, William A. , Mamaroneck, 
(see biography). 

Boyce, Wesley J., Yorktown, (see 
biography). 

Bradley, David O., Dobbs Ferry, 
Assemblyman, 1879-80. 

Brett, John H., Mount Vernon, (see 
biography). 

Briggs, Daniel C, Peekskill, Assem- 



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285 



blyman, 1851; District Attor- 
ney, 1872. 

Briggs, William H., Peekakill, 
Sheriff, 1844. 

Brower, Casper G., Tarrytown, 
School Commissioner. 

Brown, Coffin S., Peekskill, Super- 
visor 1861 and 14 years fol- 
lowing. 

Brown, Edgar K., Mount Vernon, 
(see biography.) 

Brown, Joseph, Somers, Assembly- 
man, 1790. 

Brown, Nehemiah, Jr., Somers, As- 
semblyman, 1823-24. 

Browne, Thomas A., Yonkers, (see 
biography.) 

Browne, Thomas, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1690. 

Brundage, Robert F., Port Chester, 
Sheriff, 1871 and 1877. 

Budd, Joseph, Yonkers, Assembly- 
man, 1716-22, (died while in 
office, June 20, 1722). 

Burling, Ebenezer S., Eastchester, 
Assemblyman, 1785. 

Burns, J. Irving, Yonkers, (see bio- 
graphy.) 

Burns, John J.. Yonkers, Super- 
visor. 

Bussing, John, Fordham, Supervi- 
sor; Excise Commissioner; 
Sheriff. 

Capiron, George T., White Plains, 
(see biograpihy). 

Carlisle, George L., K^w Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Carpenter, Francis M., Mt Kisco, 
(see bioeraphy.) 

Carpenter, JcKeph, Sing Sing, As- 
semblyman, 1796-1797. 

Carpenter, Joseph T., New Castle, 
Assemblyman, 1841-42. 

Carpenter, Ziba, White Plains, (see 
biography.) 

Catlin, William H., Rye, Assembly- 
man, 1880-81-82. 

Cauldwell, William, Morrisania, 
State Senator; Assemblyman; 
Supervisor, 1852 to 1870, 1871, 
1873. 

Chambers, Joseph J., Sing Sing, 
Engineer in Chief on Gover- 
nor's staff, 1855; Harbor Mas- 
ter, 1855. 



Clapp, John, White Plains, Clerk 
of first Colonial Assembly, 
1691 to 1698; County Clerk, 
1708. 

Clapp, Joihn H., Port Chester, (see 
biography) . 

Clark, Daniel, Peekskill, County 
Clerk, 1711. 

Close, Odle, Croton Falls, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Cochran, Robert, White Plains, Su- 
pervisor; Constitutional Con- 
vention; County Judge; Dis- 
trict Attorney. 

Comb, George, Westchester, Assem- 
blyman, 1800. 

Coles, Robert H., New Rochelle, 
Supervisor; Surrogate, 1856. 

Collier, Benjamin, Sing Sing, first 
Sheriff; County Clerk. 

Collier, Edward, Sing Sing, County 
Clerk, 1688. 

Constant, I. Anthony, Dobbs Ferry, 
Assemblyman, 1845. 

Constant, St. John, Peekskill, As- 
semblyman, 1823; Sheriff, 
1808. 

Cook, Lyman, Peekskill, Sheriff, 
1812 and 1818. 

Cooper, Nicholas, Westchester, 
Sheriff, 1733. 

Couch, Franklin, Peekskill, Super- 
visor. 

Courter, James C, Yonkers, first 
Mayor, 1872; Sheriff, 1880. 

Ctane, James F. D., Yonkers, Coun- 
ty Clerk, 1883. 

Crane, Thaddeus, Upper Salem, 
Constitutional Convention, 
1788; Assemblyman, 1777-78- 
88, 1825; Supervisor. 

Crawford, Elijah, White Plains, 
County Clerk, 1808, 1811, 1815. 

Crawford, George R., Mount Ver- 
non, (see biography). 

Crisfield, Frederick, East View, (see 
biography.) 

Cromwell, David, Eastchester, (see 
biography.) 

Crosby, Darius, Scarsdale, Member 
of Council of Appointment, 
1801; Master in Chancery, 
1812; State Senator, 1815-16- 
17-18-19; Assemblyman, 1811- 
12. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Crosby, Edwin, Croton Falls, As- 
semblyman, 1834-35. 

Cmger, Nicholas, Peek^idll, Super- 
visor ; Assembly^rian. ^H?8. 

Crumb, Leverett F., Peekskill, (see 
biography.) 

Curtis, Eli, Port. Chester, Assembly- 
man, 1856. 

Baton, David, North Castle, Surro- 
gate; Supervisor; first Pro- 
vincial Congress. 

Davenport, Gideon W., New Ro- 
chelle, Supervisor, 1896 to 
1898. 

Davenport, Lawrence, New Rochelle, 
Supervisor; Assemblyman, 
1829-30. 

Davids, George W., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Deal!, Samuel, Rye, Supervisor, 

Davis, George T., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 
1808 to 1823. 

Decker, Charles J. F., Croton Falls, 
(see biography.) 

Delancey, James, (2) Westchester, 
Sheriff, 1770. 

Delancey, John, Westchester, Sher- 
iff, 1769; Colonial Assembly, 
1769 to 1775; Committee of 100, 
1775; Provincial Congress, 
1775; Assemblyman, 1792 to 
1795. 

Delancey, Peter. Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1750 to 1768. 

Delevan, Daniel, Mount Pleasant, 
Sheriff, 1806. 

Delevan, Nathaniel, Mount Pleas- 
ant, Assemblyman, 1781. 

Depew, Chauncey M., Peekskill, (see 
biography). 

Dickinson, Arnell, F., Katonah, As- 
semblyman, 1857. 

Digney, John M., Yonkers, County 
Clerk, (see biography.) 

Dillon, Michael J., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Dixon, Walter B., Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography.) 

Donoghue, Frank X., Yonkers, City 
Judge, 1892 to 1896. 

Drake, Gilbert, Peekskill, Assem- 
blyman, 1775-76-77. 

Drake, James, Peekskill, Presiden- 
tial Elector, 1824. 



Drake, John, Peekskill, Assembly- 
man, 1698-99, 17*50-01-09. 

Drake, Joseph, Peekskill, Assem- 
blyman, 1713-14, 1775-76. 

Drake, Samuel, Peekskill, Provin- 
cial Convention, 1775; Assem- 
blyman, 1777-79-86-88. 

Dusenberry, Charles R., Yonkers, 
Supervisor. 

Dunham, Isaac, Westchester, Sher- 
iff, 1701. 

Dykman, Jackson, O., White Plains, 
(see biography.) 

Dykman, Henry T., White Plains, 
(see biography.) 

Earl, Edward J., Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography.) 

Ellis, M. H., Yonkers, City Judge, 
1880 to 1884. 

Engelke, Barnett H., Tarrytown, 
(see biography). 

Esser, Henry, Mount Vernon, (see 
biography). 

Fairchild, Ben L.. Pelham, (see bi- 
ography.) 

Ferris, Benjamin, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1808, 1825. 

Ferris, Claiborne, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1869. 

Ferris, Thomas, Westchester, Con- 
stitutional Convention, 1801; 
County Clerk. 

Ferris, Benson, Tarrytown, (see bi- 
ograpihy). 

Forsyth, Edward A., Yonkers, (see 
biography.) 

Finch, George C, Croton Falls, As- 
semblyman, 1853. 

Findlay, Andrew, West Farms, As- 
semblyman, 1843-44 ; Super- 
visor. 

Fisher, John, White Plains, Assem- 
blyman, 1828; Inspector of 
State Prisons, 1830, 1845. 

Fisher, William, White Plains, As- 
semblyman, 1836-37. 

Fiske, Edwin W., Mount Vernon, 

(see bigraphy). 

I Flagg, Ethan, Yonkers, Village 

Trustee, 1857-8-9-60-67-68; 

i Supervisor, 1860-63-67-68-70- 

i 71 . 

! Fleming, Peter, Bedford, Assembly- 
i man, 1776-91, Supervisor, 

1782. 
I Foster, George H., Rivordale, As- 



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287 



semblyman, 1876; State Sen- 
ator, 1880-81. 

Foster, William, Westdliester, 
Ctounty Olerk, 1772. 

Fowler, Caleb, North Castle, Sur- 
rogate, 1761. 

Fowler, Henry, North Castle, Col- 
onial Assembly, 1701. 

Fowler, Jeremiah, North Castle, 
Sheriff, 1700. 

Fraiseir, Thomas K., Hastings, (see 
biography). 

Free, John W., Tarrytown, (see bi- 
ography). 

Freeland, Dr. N. H., Tarrytown, 
(see biography.) 

Frost, Eugene, Cortlandt, Harbor 
Master, 1873. 

Frost, Joel, Cortlandt, Assembly- 
man, 1806-08. 

Frost, John W., Cortlandt, Assem- 
blyman, 1832. 

Frost, Niles, Cortlandt, Assembly- 
man, 1824. 

Gedney, John B., White Plains, In- 
spector of State Prisons, 1848. 

Getty, Robert P., Yonkers, Village 
Trustee: President; City 
Treasurer. 

Gibson, William A., Yonkers, third 
Mayor, 1876. 

GifPoi'd, Silas D., Morrisania, Super- 
visor, County Excise Oom- 
missioner; Surrogate; Qtoamty 
Judge. 

Gilbert, Abijah, Lower Salem, Su- 
perrisor, 1772; County Treas- 
urer and Clerk of Supervisors, 
1778; Assemblyman, 1779 to 
1788, 1800 to 1805. 

Gilley, Franklin, W., Morrisania, 
Assemblyman, 1864; School 
Commissioner, 1868. 

Graham, Lewis, Westchester, Sher- 
iff, 1767; Judge, Court of Ad- 
miralty, 1776; Provincial Con- 
gress, 1775-76. 

Graham, Robert, White Plains, 
Supervisor, 1772; Provincial 
Convention, 1775 ; Provincial 
Congress, 1775-76; Assembly- 
man, 1777, 1801; County 
Judge, 1778. 

Gsaney, William J., Dobbs Ferry, 
(see biography). 



Gray, George T., Harrison, (see 
biography). 

Greenhalgh, William H., Yonkers, 
(see biography). 

Guion, James, Yonkers, Assembly- 
man, 1819-20-21. 

Haight, Edward, Westchester, Con- 
gressman, 1861-62. 

Haight, Israel, Chappaqua, (see bi- 
ography). 

Haight, Samuel, Westchester, Coun- 
cil of Appointment, 1781; 
Assemblyman, 1782-83-84-89- 
90-91-92; State Senator, 1796- 
97-98-99, 1800, 1810. 

Hale, Mordecai, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1796. 

Halstead, Newberry D., Rye, As- 
semblyman, 1862. 

Hart, Robert S., Bedford, County 
Judge, 1846. 

Hatfield, Abraham, Westchester, 
Assemblyman, 1852; Supervi- 
sor. 

Hatfield, Amos T., Westchester, 
Sheriff, 1838. 

Hatfield, Joseph, Westchester, Sher- 
iff, 1807. 

Hatfield, Richard, Westchester, 
County Clerk, 1777 ; Surrogate, 
1778; Constitutional Conven- 
tion, 1788; Assemblyman, 
1794; State Senator, 1795 to 
1804; Council of Appoint- 
ment, 1781. 

Haviland, Samuel, Rye, Provincial 
Congress, 1776-77. 

Hays, Daniel P., Pleasantville, (see 
biography). 

Hayward, John R., Eastchester, As- 
semblyman, 1846; Contested 
the seat of James E. Beers 
in 1847. 

Heathcote, Caleb, Westchester, 
Lord of Manor of Scarsdale, 
Member Council of Colony, 
1692-97, 1702-20; Co. Judge, 
1695; Receiver Gen., Port of 
New York, 1695, 1702; Mayor 
of Westchester, 1696 ; Colonial 
Assembly, 1701; Master Chan- 
cery, 1711; Mayor of New 
York, 1711; Admiralty Judge, 
1715; Boundary Commission- 
er, 1718. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Herring, William, Morrisania, As- 
semblyman, 1873. 

Hickey, Daniel C, Mount Vernon, 
(see biograpiliy). 

Hoag, John, Sing Siing, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Hobbs, Bailey, Yonkers; Village 
Trustee, 1856-7-8-9; Assessor. 

Hobbs, John, Yonkers; Superintend- 
ent of Schools, 1843-47. 

Hodge, Thomas R., Mount Vernon, 
(see biography). 

Hoite, John, Eastchester, Colonial 
Assembly, 1711-12-13. 

Holmes, James, Bedford, Supervisor, 
1772; Provincial Convention, 
1775 ; Provincial Congress, 
1775. 

Holmes, John C, Cross River, Jus- 
tice of Sessions; Supervisor, 

Holmes, Samuel L., Bedford, Su- 
perintendent of Schools, 1846; 
Assemblyman, 1843. 

Honeywell, Israel, Yonkers, Super- 
visor, 1783; Assemblyman, 
1798-99; Constitutional Con- 
vention, 1801. 

Honeywell, Israel Jr., Yonkers, 
Sheriff, 1709. 

Honeywell, Philip, Yonkers, Assem- 
blyman, 1806. 

Horton, Elisha, White Plains, Coun- 
ty Treasurer, 1848. 

Horton, Frost, Peekskill, Assem- 
blyman, 1858; Supervisor. 

Horton, Jonathan, Cortlandt, As- 
semblyman, 1788-89-90-91. 

Howard, Ward B., Peekskill, Sher- 
iff, 1821. 

Howe, Frederick, Le.wisboro, (see 
biography). 

Horton, Jared M., Kingsbridge, 
School Commissioner. 

Hubbell, Gaylord B., Sing Sing, As- 
semblyman, 1859-60; Prison 
Warden. 

Hunt, Daniel, Lewisboro, Supervi- 
sor, 1841 to 1874; Assembly- 
man, 1855. 

Hunt, James M., Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Hunt, Jesse, Rye, Sheriff, 1781. 

Hunt, John, Westchester, Colonial 
Assembly, 1669, 1700. 



Hunt, Joseph, Westchester, Assem- 
blyman, 1822. 

Hunt, Josiah, Westchester, Colon- 
ial Assembly, 1702-11-15. 

Hunt, Thomas, Sr., Westchester, 
Assembly of 1683; Chairman 
Committee of Safety. 

Hunter, John, New Rochelle, State 
Senator, 1823-36-37-38-39-40- 
41-42; Constitutional Conven- 
tion, 1846. 

Huntington, L. D., New Rochellei, 
President of Village; Super- 
visor; Assemblyman; Com- 
missioner of Fisheries. 

Husted, Harvey, White Plains, (see 
biography). 

Husted, James W., Peekskill, (see 
biography). 

Husted, James W., Jr., Peekskill, 
(see biography). 

Husted, John W., Bedford, Super- 
visor. 

Hutchins, Waldo, Kingsbridge, Con- 
gressman. 

Irving, Washington, Tarrytown, Re- 
gent, 1835; U. S. Minister to 
Spain, 1842. 

Isaacs, Benjamin, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1807. 

Jay, James, Sir, Rye, Senator, 1778- 
79-80-81. 

Jay, John, Bedford; Chief Justice of 
the State, 1777; Congressman, 
1778; U. S. Minister to Spain, 
1779; Chief Justice of the U. 
S., 1789; Governor of State, 
1795, (see biography). 

Jay, Peter A., Bedford, Delegate to 
Convention, 1821; Assembly- 
man, 1816; Recorder of New 
York, 1818. 

Jay, William, Bedford, County 
Judge, 1820. 

Jenkins, John P., White Plains, 
Ciounity Clerk; Register. 

Jenks, Albert S., Mount Vernon, 
(see biography). 

Jessup, Edward, Westchester, Con- 
stitutional Convention, 1664. 

Johnson, Addison, Port Chester, 
(see biography). 

Johnson, Samuel W., Rye, Supervi- 
sor; Assemblyman. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



June, Zabud, North Salem, Sheriff, 
1815; Supervisor. 

Kane, John C, Mamiaronjeck, (see 
biography). 

Kear, Edward B., Yorktown, (see 
biography). 

Kent, Theodore, West Farms, School 
Commissioner, 

Kellogg, William C, Yonkers, City 
Judge, 1896 to 1900. 

Kene, Oomelius E., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Keogh, Martin J., New Rochelle, 
Supreme Court Justice, 1896, 
now acting. 

Keyes, Edwin R., Yonkers, Assem- 
blyman, 1882-83; Postmaster, 
1885. , 

Kidd, Harvey, West Farms, Assem- 
blyman, 1849; Clerk of County 
Excise Board, 1857. 

Knapp, Samueil T., Tarrytown, (see 
biography). 

Knox, John, Beford, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Konrad, Augustus, Tarrytown, (see 
biography). 

Lane, Charles M., Pleasantville, 
(see biography). 

Larkin, Francis, Sing Sing, (see bi- 
ography). 

Lawrence, Alfred, Tarrytown, (see 
biography). 

Lawrence, Cyrus, Lewisboro, Super- 
visor, 1840; Counsel to Excise 
Commissioner, 1857. 

Lawrence, Edward D., Mount Ver- 
non, Assemblyman, 1869-70. 

Lawrence, James F., South Salem, 
(see biography). 

Lawrence, John, Eastchester, As- 
semhlyman, 1782-83, 

Lawrence, Samuel H., Lewishoro, 
(see biogriaphy), 

Lee, Joseph, Yorktown, County 
Clerk, 1684, 1691. 

Lee, Robert P., Yorktown, District 
Attorney, 1818. 

Lee, Elijah, Yorktown, Assembly- 
man, 1798-99; County Judge, 
1802. 

Lent, Herbert D., Tuckahoe, (see 
biography). 

Jjent, Smith, Sing Sing, (see biog- 
raphy). 



Lewis, Daniel, Mount Vernon, (see 
biography). 

Little, John W., Cortlandt, School 
Commissioner. 

Little, Daniel H., Greenburgh, Sher- 
iff; Supervisor; Deputy Reg- 
ister. 

Little, C. W„ Greenburgh, Super- 
visor, 1857 to 1860; Under 
Sheriff, 

Lockwood, Albert, Sing Sing, Coun- 
ty Judge, 1847. 

Lockwood, Alsop H., Poundridge, 
(see biography). 

Lockwood, Ebenezer, Poundridge, 
(see biography), 

Lockwood, Ezra, Poundridge, (see 
biography), 

Lockwood, Horatio, Poundridge, 
(see biography), 

Lockwood, James B., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Lockwood, Jeremiah T., White 
Plains, (see biography), 

Lockwood, Munson I., Sing Sing, 
County Clerk, 1843; Prison 
Warden. 

Long, Edward B., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Lounsbury, John W., Port Chester, 
(stee biography). 

Livingsttm, Riohaird, Tarrytown, 
(see biography). 

Lovat't, Edward T., Noirth Tarry- 
town, (see biography). 

Lyon, Darius, Mount Vernon, Su- 
pervisor; Sheriff; County Ex- 
cise Commissioner. 

Lyon, George W., Mount Kisco, As- 
semblyman, 1852. 

Lyon, Gilbert S., White Plains, Su- 
pervisor; County Treasurer. 

Lyon, Jesse, Eastchester, Assem- 
blyman, 1850. 

Lyon, Joseph, Pelham, Sheriff, 
1841. 

McClelland, Chas. P., Dobbs Ferry, 
(see biography.) 

McClellan, Clarence S., Mount Ver- 
non, (see biography). 

McClellan, Pelham L., Mt. Vernon, 
Supervisor; District Attorney, 

McDermott, Wm. J., Westchester, 
Assemblyman, 1861. 

MacDonald, Allan, White Plains, 
Adjutant-Gen., 1837; Sheriff, 



290 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



1825; Inspector S. S. Prison, 
1830; Senator, 1832-33-34-35. 

McLaughlin, Joseph H., Mamaro- 
neck, (see biography). 

Many, Joshua G., Sing Sing, (see bi- 
ography). 

Mahaney, John J., Tarrytown, (see 
biography). 

Hairs, George H., Irvington, (see bi- 
ography). 

Marshall, Ezra, Peekskill, Assem- 
blyman, 1846-47. 

Marshall, John E., Port Chester, 
Supervisor, 1855-61; Assem- 
blyman, 1863; Village Trustee. 

Marshall, Stephen S., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Marvin, Seth, Rye, Assemblyman, 
1807. 

Masten, Joseph, Yonkers, Mayor, 
1874, 1878. 

Maynard, William P., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Millard, FYank V., Tarrytown, (see 
biography). 

Miller, Abram, North Castle, As- 
semblyman, 1808-11-12-13-14, 
1816-17, 1820-21. 

Miller, Benjamin D., Yorktown, 
Sheriff, 1849. 

Miller, Jacob G., Sing Sing, (see 
biography). 

Miller, Joseph O., Mount Kisco, 
Register. 

Miller, George L., Wh'iite Plains, (see 
biiograp'hy). 

Miller, Samuel C, White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Miller, William, Mount Vernon, 
Justice of Sessions; School 
Commissioner. 

Mills, Isaac N., Mount Vernon, (see 
biography). 

Mills, John W., White Plains, Su- 
pervisor; County Judge; Sur- 
rogate. 

Mills, Dr. Wm. W., East View, (see 
biography). 

Mills, Zebadiah, Bedford, Pro. Con- 
gress, 1776-77; Assemblyman, 
1778-84. 

Millward, James, Yonkers, Mayor, 
1890-01. 

Molloy, William V., New Roehelle, 
(see biography). 



Montross, Barnardus, Yorktown, 
Assemblyman, 1837. 

Montross, Nathaniel, Yorktown, As- 
semblyman, 1827-28. 

Moller, William F., Vonkers, As- 
semblyman, 1877-78-81. 

Mooney, M. James, Yonkers, (see 
biography). 

Moran, John P., White Plains, (see 
biography). 

Morris, Lewis Sr., Weatchester, 
Congress, 1775-76-77; Council 
of Safety, 1777; Assemblyman, 
1777-78; Continental Congress, 
1777; U. S. Minister to France, 
1792; U. S. Senator, 1798; Can- 
al Commissioner, 1810. 

Morris, Lewis Sr., Morrisania, 
Councillor of the Colony, 
1684-8, 1721-25; Chief Justice, 
1715; Assemblyman, 1712-27; 
Boundary Commissioner, 1723. 

Morris, Lewis, Jr., Westchester, 
Boundary Commissioner, 1723; 
Assemblyman, 1728-48. 

Morris, Lewis, 3rd, Westchester, 
Colonial Assembly, 1769-75; 
Prov. Convention, 1775; Pro v. 
Congress, 1775-76; Continen- 
tal Con., 1775; Admiralty 
Judge, 1772-76; County Judge, 
1777; Regent, 1784, 1787; Con- 
vention 1788; Senator, 1777- 
78-79-80-81, 1784-85-86-87-88- 
89-90; Council Appointment; 
Elector, 1796. 

Morris, Richard V., Westchester, 
Assemblyman, 1814. 

Morse, Waldo G., Yonkers, (see 
biography). 

Mott, Jordan L., Morrisania, Elec- 
tor, 1876. 

Munro, Peter J., Mamaroneck, Con- 
stitutional Convention, 1821; 
Assemblyman, 1814-15. 

Murphy, Thomas, Bedford, Assem- 
blyman, 1831. 

Nelson, Henry C, Sing Sing, As- 
semblyman; Prison Warden; 
State Senator. 

Nelson, William, Peekskill, Assem- 
blyman, 1820-21; Senator, 
1824-25-26-27; District Attor- 
ney, 1815, 1822; Congressman, 
1847-51. 

Newman, Elias, Bedford, Assembly- 



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291 



man, 1792-3-4-6; Sheriff, 1796; 
SuperTisor, 1794-95. 

Nicoll, Benjamin, Westchester, 
County Clerk, 1746; Boundary 
Commissioner, 1754. 

Niles, William W., Fordham, As- 
semblyman, 1872, 1881. 

Oakley, Robert R., White Plains, 
County Clerk, 1849 to 1855. 

Odell, Jonathan, Greenburgh, As- 
semblyman, 1715. 

Odell, Abram, Greenburgh; Assem- 
blyman, 1801 to 1811; Super- 
visor, 1801 to 1820. 

Odell, Jacob, Tarrytown, Assembly- 
man; Elector; Postmaster. 

Odell, N. Holmes, Tarrytown, As- 
semblyman ; County Treas- 
urer; Cbngressman; Postmas- 
ter, 1886, 1894. 

Osborn, Ozias, Westchester, Assem- 
blyman, 1808. 

Otis, Norton P., Yonkers, Mayor, 
1880; Assemblyman, 1884. 

Paddock, Prince W., Yonkers, As- 
semblyman, 1835-36. 

Palmer, B. Frank, Larchmont, (see 
biography). 

Palmer, Joseph H., Yonkers, School 
Commissioner. 

Palmer, Robert, Scarsdale, County 
Treasurer, 1852. 

Paulding, William, Cbrtlandt, Pro. 
Congress, 1775-76-77; Assem- 
blyman, 1779-80. 

Paulding, William, Jr., Cortlandt, 
Adjutant-General, 1809, 1811; 
Congressman, 1812. 

Peck, Jared V., Rye; Assemblyman, 
1848; Congressman, 1853-54; 
Elector, 1856; Port Warden, 
1859. 

Peene, Joihn G., Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Pell, John, Pelham, Assemblyman, 
1691-92-93-94. 

Pell, Philip, Pelham, Sheriff, 1787- 
88; Con. Congress, 1788. 

Pell, Philip, Jr., Pelham, Assembly- 
man, 1779-80-84-85-86; Regent, 
1784; Surrogate, 1787. 

Pemberton, William H., Mt. Vernon, 
Deputy County Clerk; Dis- 
trict Attorney. 

Penfield, George J., New Rodhelle, 
(see bitograpthy). 



Pentz, George B., Yonkers, Elector, 
1868; City Judge, 1884 to 1888. 

Percival, Henrie A., Yonkers, Su- 
pervisor. 

Perrin, Alfred M., Mamaromeck, (see 
biography). 

Phelps, Henry D., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Philipse, Adolph, Yonkers, Coun- 
cillor, 1705-21; Master Chan- 
cery, 1711; Agent Colony, 
1716; Boundary Com., 1718-23; 
Assemblyman, 1720. 

Philipse, Frederick, Yonkers, Sec- 
retary Province, 1688; Coun- 
cillor, 1675-88; Assembly, 1726 
to 1735; County Judge, 1735; 
Supreme Court Judge, 1731- 
33. 

Philipse, Col. Fred, Yonkers, As- 
sembly, 1750-51; Com. Corre- 
spondence, 1774; Supervisor. 

Pieirson, Frank R., Ts^rrytown, (see 
biography). 

Pine, Theodore, New Rochelle, Reg- 
ister, 1875. 

Piatt, Benoni. White Plains, (see 
biography). 

Piatt, Jonathan, Scarsdale, Pro. 
Congress, 1776-77. 

Piatt, Lewis C, Sr., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Piatt, Lewis C, White Plains, (see 
biography). 

Piatt, William P., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Potter, Clarkson N., New Rochelle,^ 
Congressman, 1869 to 1875, 
1877-79. 

Proseus, Joseph L., Yonkers, Har- 
bor Master, 1873. 

Purdy, Ambrose H., Morrisania, 
Assemblyman, 1877-78. 

Purdy, Charles A., White Plains^ 
County Clerk, 1840. 

Purdy, Daniel, Rye, Colonial As- 
semblyman, 1739 to 1743. 

Purdy, Ebenezer, North Salem, 
County Judge, 1797 to 1802; 
Assemblyman, 1779-82-83-84- 
85-87-91-92-95; Senator, 1800, 
to 1806; Council Appointment, 
1803. 

Purdy, Isaac Hart, Purdy's Station,, 
(see biography). 



293 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Purdy, Isaac, Purdy Station, (see 
biography). 

Purdy, Josepli, Rye, Colonial As- 
sembly, 1695 to 1705. 

Purdy, Samuel, Rye, County Judge, 
1734. 

Purdy, Samuel M., West Farms, 
Assemblyman, 1867-68; Su- 
pervisor. 

Radford, William, Yonkers, Village 
President, 1855- to 1857; Con- 
gressman, 1863 to 1867. 

Requa, William, Yonkers, Assem- 
blyman, 1814-15-18-19; Coun- 
ty Clerk, 1820. 

Rhodes, Bradford, Scarsdale, (see 
biography). 

Ryder, John, Cbrtlandt, Cbunty 
Clerk, 1684. 

Robertson, George W., Peekskill, 
Assemblyman; State Senator; 
Village President. 

Robertson, Henry, Bedford, Super- 
visor, 1840 to 1845. 

Robertson, Hezekiah D., Bedford, 
(see biography). 

Robertson, William H., Katonah, 
(see biography). 

Robinson, Harry J., Mt. Vernon, 
(see biography). 

Rockwell, Nathan, Assemblyman, 
1780-81-87-88-89, 1800. 

Ross, James, New Rochele, (see bi- 
ography). 

Rowell, Hiram P., White Plains, 
Clerk of Supervisors; Warden 
S. S. Prison; County Clerk. 

Rowell, John M., White Plains, 
County Clerk, 1877 to 1883. 

Rusooe, Greorge I., Poundridge, (see 
biography). 

Sackett, Clarence, Rye, Supervisor. 

Sandford, Jared, Mount Vernon, 
(see biography). 

Sawyer, Piatt R. H., Bedford, 
School Commissioner. 

Schatz, Adam E., Mount Vernon, 
(see biography). 

SchiefEelin, Charles M., Mount Ver- 
non, Assemblyman, 1875-76. 

Schirmer, Frank G., White Plains, 
(see biography.) 

Sehlobohm, John, Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Soribner, G. Hilton, Yonkers, (see 
biography). 



Scrugham, William W., Yonkers, 
Supervisor; District Attorney; 
Justice Supreme Court. 

Seaman, Walter, Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1788-89. 

See, James S., North Tarrytown, 
Assemblyman; Justice of Ses- 
sions. 

See, Joseph B., Nortlh Castle, (see 
biography). 

Sells, John, Yonkers, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Selz, Andrew J., New Rochelle, (see 
biography). 

Shiel, Dennis R., Fordham, Assem- 
blyman, 1875. 

Shinn, John M., Pelham, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Shute, John, Eastchester, Sheriff, 
1698. 

Silkman, Theodore H., Yonkers, 
(see biography). 

Smith, Abel, North Castle, Super- 
visor, 1794 to 1800, 1806; As- 
semblyman, 1794 to 1803. 

Smith, Benjamin, Rye, Congress- 
man, 1776-77. 

Smith, Chauncey, Bedford, Ctoun- 
ty Clerk, 1839. 

Smith, Caleb, Yonkers, Supervisor, 
1825 to 1842. 

Smith, George W., Port Chester, 
School Commissioner. 

Smith, Isaac H., Peekskill, (see bi- 
ography). 

Smith, J. Malcolm, Sing Sing, Clerk 
of Supervisors; County Clerk. 

Smith, John H., Bedford, Assembly- 
man, 1826; County Clerk, 1834. 

Smith, Thomas, Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Smith, Thomas, Cross River, As- 
semblyman, 1822-23-32. 

Stafford, James W., White Plains, 
(see biography). 

Stainach, A. R., White Plains, (see 
biography). 

Statham, Thomas, Westchester, 
Sheriff, 1689. 

Stephens, Theodore B., Tarrytown, 
School Commissioner. 

Stewart, Abel T., Tarrytown, School 
Commissioner. 

Stewart, John N., Williamsbridge, 
Assemblyman. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



Storms, Henry, Tarrytown, Com- 
missary-General, 1842; State 
Prison Inspector, 1851. 

Strang, Joseph, Peeltskill, Assem- 
blyman, 1780-87-88, 1839-40. 

Sutlierland, Edmund G., White 
Plains, Clerk of Supervisors; 
Supervisor; Assemblyman: 
Senator. 

Sutherland, Leslie, Yenkers, Alder- 
man, 1894 to 1898; Clerk of 
Surrogate's Court, 1895, now 
acting; Mayor, 1898, now act- 
ing. 

Swift, Samuel, Yonkers, Mayor, 
1882. 

Talman, Pierre C, Morrisania, As- 
semblyman. 

Tappen, Abraham B., Fordham, 
Supervisor, 1857; Assem- 
blyman, 1858; State Prison 
Inspector, 1862; Constitution- 
al Convention, 1867; Supreme 
Court Justice, 1868. 

Taylor, Moses W., Mount Pleasant, 
(see biography). 

Teed, Charles, Somers, Assembly- 
man, 1796 to 1801. 

Teed, James P., Somers, (see biog- 
raphy). 

Teed, W. B., Somers, Supervisor, 
1849, 1862 to 1868, 1870-71. 

Thayer, Stephen H., Yonkers, City 
Judge, 1888 to 1892. 

Thomas, Edward, Rye, Surrogate, 
1802 to 1807. 

Thomas, John, Rye, Col. Assembly, 
1745 to 1775; Boundary Com- 
missioner, 1753 ; County 
Judge, 1755; Sheriff, 1778 and 
1785. 

Thomas, Thomas, Rye, Assembly- 
man; Sheriff, 1788 to 1792; 
Senator; Coun. Appointment. 

Thiompson, Ffarrington M., White 
Plains, (see biography). 

Tompkins, Caleb, Scarsdale, Super- 
visor; Assemblyman; Con- 
gressman, 1817-18. 

Tompkins, Daniel D., Scarsdale, 
(see biography). 

Tompkins, Jonathan G., Scarsdale, 
Provincial Congress; Council 
of Safety; Assemblyman; Re- 
gent; County Judge; Consti- 
tutional Con. 1801. 



! Tompkins, Theodore F., Yorktown, 
(see biography). 

Todd, Gilbert M., Sing Sing, Super- 
visor, (see biography). 

Townsend, John, Eastchester, Su- 
pervisor, 1810 to 1823; Coun- 
cil of Appointnaent, 1822; As- 
semblyman, 1817; Senator, 
1820-1-2; Sheriff, 1823. 

Travis, Joseph, Cortlandt, Assem- 
blyman, 1802-3-4-5. 

Treanor, Frank P., Yonkers, Police 
Commissioner ; Assemblyman, 
(N. Y. C.) 1880; Senator, (N. Y. 
C), 1882-83. 

Tripp, Leemon B., North Castle, 
County Treasurer; Supervi- 
sor; Sheriff. 

Underbill, John Q., New Rochelle, 
(see biography). 

Underbill, Richard M., Yorktown, 
Assemblyman, 1848. 
i Van Arsdale, William H., Mount 
I Vernon, (see biograip'hy). 

Van Cortlandt, Augustus, Yonkers, 
Sujiervisor, 1858-59; Assem- 
blyman, 1859. 

Van Cortlandt, Philip, Cortlandt, 
Provincial Convention; Pro- 
vincial Congress ; Constitu- 
tional Convention, 1788; As- 
semblyman; Senator; Council 
of Appointment ; Congress- 
man; Councillor; Elector; Su- 
pervisor. 

Van Cortlandt, Pierre, Cortlandt, 
Colonial Assembly; Provin- 
cial Con.; Council of Safety; 
Senator; Lieut.-Governor; 

Vice-Chancellor. 

Van Cortlandt, Pierre, Jr., Cort- 
landt, Assemblyman; Super- 
visor; Elector; Constitutional 
Con., 1801; Congressman. 

Van Dyck, Jacobus, Westchester, 
Sheriff, 1727. 

Vark, Aaron, Yonkers, Assembly- 
man, 1831. 

Vermilyea, Isaac, Yonkers, Super- 
visor, 1802 to 1825. 

Vermilyea. Isaac D., Armonk, 
School Commissioner. 

Voris, Richard R., Sing Sing, Dis- 
trict Attorney. 

Ward, Aaron, Sing Sing, Constitu- 
tional Con. 1846; District At- 



294 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



tomey; Congressman, 12 



Ward, Edmund, Eastchester, Col. 
Assembly, 1705 to 1713; Sher- 
iff, 1699. 

Ward, Elijah, New Rochelle, Sher- 
iff, 1810. 

Ward, Jonathan, Eastchester, Sher- 
iff; Senator; Councir of Ap- 
pointment; Congressman; 
Constitutional Con., 1821; 
Surrogate. 

Ward, Stephen, Eastchester, Prov. 
Convention; Prov. Congress; 
Assembly; County Judge; 
Senator; Council Appoint- 
ment; Elector. 

Ward, William L., Port Chester, 
(see biography). 

Waring, Hall B., Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Waring, John T., Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Waterbury, Fred W., Dobbs Ferry, 
Assemblyman, 1855. 

Watson, Israel H., Westchester, As- 
semblyman, 1832-33. 

Watts, John, New Rochelle, Coun- 
ty Judge, 1802. 

Webbers, David D., Yorktown, Su- 
pervisor; Sheriff. 

Weeks, Frederick E., Tarry town, 
(see biography). 

Wells, Alexander H., Sing Sing, 
Surrogate; Prison Inspector. 

Wells, Edward, Peekskill, District 
Attorney. 

Wells, Henry A., Peekskill, School 
Commissioner. 

Wells, James L., West Farms, As- 
semblyman. 



Weston, William G., Tarrytown, 
School Commissioner. 

Whalen, Patrick, Yonkers, (see bi- 
ography). 

Wight, Amherst Jr., Port Chester, 
Supervisor; Assemblyman, 
1873-74. 

Wiley, James, Peekskill, Assembly- 
man, 1826. 

Wilkins, Isaac, Westchester, Com. 
of Correspondence, 1774; Col. 
Assembly, 1772. 

Willets, Edward, Harrison, Supervi- 
sor, 14 years. 

Willets, Gilbert, Harrison, Col. As- 
sembly, 1728; Boundary Com- 
missioner, 1731; Sheriff, 1728 
and 1730. 

Willets, Henry, White Plains, 
County Treasurer. 

Willets, Isaac, Harrison, Sheriff. 

Willets, Thomas, Westchester, 
Boundary Commissioner, 

1650; Councillor, 1665 to 1672. 

Willets, William, Harrison, Col. As- 
sembly, 1727 to 1739; Bound- 
ary Commissioner, 1718; Co. 
Judge, 1721 to 1732. 

Williams, David O., Mount Vernon, 
(see biography). 

Willsea, Abram 0., Dobbs Ferry, 
Supervisor, 1864 to 1881. 

Wood, Joseph S., Mount Vernon, 
School Commissioner. 

Wright, Isaac C, Somers, School 
Commissioner. 

Young, James, White Plains, (see 
biography). 

Youngs, Samuel, Mount Pleasant, 
Assemblyman; Surrogate. 



INDEX. 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



297 



INDEX. 



A. 

PAGES, 

Abendroth, William P 244 

Almshouse OflBcials 115 

Andrews, George C, l&l 

Ardsley Village, L97 

Assembly, Members of 43 

Assessments and Taxation . . 155 



B. 

Banks, Charles G., 227 

Banks, National 156 

Banks, Savings 157 

Baxter, Charles M 171 

Bedford, town of 189 

Besson, John, 148 

Bird, James 199 

Bird, Seth 145 

Bigelow, Charles C 153 

Birch, Charles E., 164 

Boyd, William A 210 

Boyce, Wesley J 182 

Brett, John H 219 

Bronxville Village 195 

Brown, Edgar K 172 

Browne, Thomas A., 172 

Burns, J. Irving 168 

c. 

Capron, George T., 252 

Care of County's poor 112 

Carlisle, George L., 140 

Carpenter, Francis M., 161 

Carpenter, Ziba, 133 

Cities, relative to 152 

City Clerks 154 

Clapp, John H 245 

Clerks of towns 154 

Close, Odle, 69 

Colonial Assembly 13 

Commissioners of Excise 117 

Commissioner of Jurors 118 

Congress, Provincial 15 

Congress, Members of 16 



PAGES, 

Constitutional Conventions. . . 30 

Cooper, James Fenimore, 71 

Cooper, Peter 70 

Cornell, Thomas 72 

Cornell, Ezra 72 

Coroners 116 

Cortlandt, town of 190 

Couch, Franklin, 53 

County, organization, etc 5 

County Clerks 105 

County Clerks' Deputies 106 

County Clerk and Deputies... 151 

County Judges 100 

Court Houses 33 

Croton Aqueduct 21 

Croton Village 193 

Crisfield, Frederick, 182 

Crawford, George R 221 

Cromwell, David 130 

Crumb, Leverett F 162 



D. 

Davids, George W 228 

Davis, George T., 228 

Decker, Charles J. F 165 

Depew, Chauncey M., 72 

Digney, John M 135 

Dillon, Michael J., 229 

District Attorneys 103 

District Attorneys Assistants. 104 

Dixon, Walter B., 173 

Dobbs Ferry Village 196 

Dykman, Henry T., 252 

Dykman, Jackson 158 



E. 

Earl, Edward J., 173 

Eastchester, town of 194 

Engelke, Barnett H 199 

Esser, Henry 182 

Excise, Commissioners 117 

Excise, Tax-law rates, 184 



298 MANUAL 


AND CIVIL LIST. 




F. 

F 

Fanueil, Peter, 


AGES. 

74 
131 

74 
141 
218 
173 
139 
200 
183 

75 

169 
174 
65 
170 
268 
195 
174 
200 

174 
210 
205 
196 
213 
147 
278 
131 
163 
208 
260 
165 
76 
139 

152 

78 

198 

272 

151 

79 
80 


Jay, William 


PAGES. 

. 80 
175 


Fairchild, Ben L., 




. 110 


Farragut, David G., 


Jurors, Commissioner of, . . 
Justices of Sessions 

K. 

TCfinp Tnhn C 


118 


Ferris, Benson, 


103 


Fiske, Edwin W., 




Forsyth, Edward A., 

Fraser, Thomas K 




Free, John W 




Freeland, Nicholas H 


. 211 


Kear, Edward B., 


. 175 






. 230 






. 142 


G. 


Kitching, J. Howard 


. 80 
. 201 


Graney, William J., 

Gray, George T 

Gibbons, Mrs. Abbie, 

Gibney, John, 


Knox, John, 

Konrad, Augustus 

L. 


. 149 
. 201 


Governors of the State 

Greenburgh, town of, 


. 175 


Greenhalgh, wniiam H., .... 


T .Q rf h m nn t Villasp 


. 209 


Gross, Charles, 


Larkin, Francis, 


. 146 
. 201 


H. 

Haight, Israel A 

Halstead, Jacob, 

Harrison town of 


Lawrence, James F 

Lawrence, Samuel H., 

Law Librarian 

Lawyers resident of county 
Leggett William, 


. 176 
. 208 
. 151 
. 280 
. 81 


Hastings Village 


Lent Herbert D., 


. 176 


Hays, Daniel P., 


Lent, Smith 

Lewis, Daniel 


. 160 


Hickey, Daniel C 


. 177 


Historical Notes 


Lewisboro, town of 

Liquor Tax-law 


. 206 




. 184 


Hodge, Tliomas R., 


Livingston, Richard, 

Lockwood, Alsop H 

Lockwood, Ebenezer, 

Lockwood Ezra 


. 202 


Howe, Frederick, 

Hunt, James M. ... 


. 132 
. 143 


Husted, Harvey, 

Husted James W 


. 144 


Lockwood, Horatio, 


. 144 


Husted, James W., Jr., 


Lockwood, James B., 

Lockwood, Jeremiah T 

Long Edward B 


. 142 
. 252 
. 253 


I. 


Lounsbury, John W 

Lovatt Edward T., 


. 146 
. 214 


Incorporated Villages, 

Irving, Washington, 

Irvington Village 

Items of Interest 


M. 

Macgowan, Robert W 

Mahaney John J . . . 


. 221 
. 148 


J. 
Janitor, etc.. Court House 


Mairs George H 


. 202 


Mamaroneck, town of 


. 208 
. 209 


Jay, John, 


Many Joshua G 


148 


Jay, Peter A., 


Marshall, Stephen S 


. 134 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



PAGES. 

Maynard, William P 254 

McClellan, Clarence S., 222 

McClelland, Charles P 138 

McLaughlin, Joseph H., 211 

Members of Assembly 43 

Memorable Events 273 

Millard, Frank V., 202 

Miller, George L., 254 

Miller, Jacob G., 164 

Miller, Samuel C, 165 

Military Posts in the county. 124 

Mills, Isaac N., 130 

Mills, William W., 183 

Molloy, William V., 163 

Mooney, M. James, 14S 

Moran, John P., 255 

Morse, Waldo G., 261 

Morrisania, town of 56 

Mount Kisco Village 224 

Mount Pleasant, town of 212 

Mt. Vernon, city and town of 215 



N. 

Names Appearing in Civil List 284 

New Castle, town of 223 

New Rochelle, town and vil- 
lage of, 224 

North Castle, town of 233 

North Pelham Village 239 

North Salem, town of 234 

North Tarry town Village 212 



o. 

Ossining,. town of 235 

P. 

Paine, Thomas, 81 

Palisade Commission 120 

Palmer, B, Frank, 166 

Peck, Jared V 243 

Peekskill Village 191 

Peene, John G., 261 

Pelham, town of 238 

Pelham Manor Village 239 

Pelham Village 239 

Penfield, George J 137 

Perrin, Alfred M., 211 

Phelps, Henry D 177 

Pierson, Frank R., 203 



PAGES. 

Piatt, Benoni, 143 

Piatt, Lewis C, 129 

Piatt, Lewis C, Jr., 256 

Piatt, Stuart Dean, 256 

Piatt, William Popham 135 

Pleasantville Village 213 

Poor of the County 112 

Population of County 8 

Population Cities and Villages 152 

Port Chester Village 243 

Post Offices and Postmasters. 126 

Poundridge, town of 240 

Practicing Lawyers in County 280 

Presidential Electors 18 

Presidential Vote 19 

Presidents of the United States 269 

Presidents, Vice, 270 

Provincial Congress Deputies 15 

Purdy, Isaac, 177 

Purdy, Isaac H 144 



R. 

Railroads that traverse County 186 

Receivers of Taxes 154 

Reformatory for Women at 

Bedford 65 

Register of Deeds, 107 

Registers' Deputies 108 

Register's Staff 150 

Rhodes, Bradford, 137 

Robertson, Hezekiah D„ 82 

Robertson, William H., 86 

Robinson, Harry J., 178 

Ross, James, 231 

Ruscoe, George I., 178 

Russell, Frederick A., 203 

Rye, town of, 242 

s. 

Sandford, Jared, 169 

Scarsdale, town of 246 

Schatz, Adam E., 219 

Schirmer, Frank G., 179 

Schlobohm, John ~' 262 

School Commissioners 119 

School Superintendents 220 

Scribner, G. Hilton 136 

Secor, Chauncey T., 171 

See, Joseph B 179 

Sells, John 164 

Selz, Andrew J., 281 



MANUAL AND CIVIL LIST. 



PAGES. 

Senator, United States 16 

Senators, State, 41 

Sheriffs, 108 

Sheriffs, Under 110 

Sheriff and Deputies 150 

Shinn, John M., 180 

Silkman, Theodore H 159 

Smith, Alfred E., 140 

Smith, Isaac H 166 

Smith, Thomas, 262 

Somers, town of 247 

Stafford, James W., 225 

Stainach, A. R 167 

State Prison, Sing Sing, In- 
spectors, 121 

State Prison, Sing Sing, Agents 

and "Wardens 122 

State Prison, Sing Sing, Clerks 123 
State Prison, Sing Sing, Chap- 
lains, 124 

State Prison, Sing Sing, Pres- 
ent Officials, 125 

State Senators 41 

Storms, Gen. Henry 82 

Studwell, E. A 204 

Supervisors, 52 

Supreme Court, 37 

Surrogates, 100 

Surrogate's Clerks, 102 

Surrogate's Court Clerks 151 



Tarrytown Village igg 

Tax Collectors I54 

Tax, Liquor Law 184 

Taylor, Moses W 215 

Teed, James P., 180 

Thompson, Ffarrington M„ . . 142 

Tilden, Samuel J 83 

Todd, Gilbert M., iso 



PAGES. 

Tompkins, Daniel D 83 

Tompkins, Theodore F 149 

Town Clerks in County 154 

Towns , ... 187 

Treasurer, County, 105 

Treasurer, County, Deputies . . 105 

Treasurer and Assistants 150 



U. 

Underhill, John Q., 232 

V. 

Vassar, Hatthew 84 

Van Arsdale, William H 222 

Villages, 152 

W. 

Ward, William L., 168 

Waring, Hall B., 181 

Waring, John T., 244 

Weeks, Frederick E 205 

Westchester County Bar Asso- 
ciation 86 

Westchester is New York's 

Benefactor 21 

Whalen, Patrick 181 

White Plains, town and vil- 
lage of, 249 

Worden, John L., 84 

Williams, David O., 220 



Young, James, Jr., 256 

Yonkers, city and town of 256 

Yorktown, town of 265 



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